Management of Oral Mucositis in Patients with Cancer. Review of Literature and Experience in the General Hospital of Mexico

María Verónica Cuevas-González; Enrique Echevarría-y-Pérez; Celia Minerva Díaz-Aguirre & Juan Carlos Cuevas-González

Summary

Mucositis is the secondary reaction to chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy, there are multiple therapeutic alternatives to treat this complication, there doesn’t exist a specific therapy so the aim of this review is to coordinate the various ways of treating oral mucositis and its effect and to share the experience at the General Hospital of Mexico. Within the most widely used treatments is the use of mucosal protective drugs, cryotherapy, growth factors, among others, the main effect is to delay the onset of injury and decrease the severity of them, not all options are available for medical staff so they must know the different Iptherapeutic alternatives and the scientific soundness for each option.

KEY WORDS: General Hospital of Mexico, oral mucositis, patients with cancer, review of literature.

How to cite this article

CUEVAS-GONZÁLEZ, M. V.; ECHEVARRÍA-Y- PÉREZ, E.; DÍAZ-AGUIRRE. C. M. & CUEVAS-GONZÁLEZ, J. C. Management of oral mucositis in patients with cancer. Review of literature and experience at the General Hospital of Mexico. Int. J. Odontostomat., 9(2):289-294, 2015.