Role of Natural Food Extracts in Preventing or Treating the Side Effects Related to Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 3432
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2. Department of Science and Technology for Humans and the Environment, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Álvaro del Portillo 21, 00128 Rome, Italy
Interests: gastro-esophageal reflux disease; pathophysiology; diagnosis; and treatment; gas-trointestinal motility; functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract; diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
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Interests: food chemistry; polyphenols; bioactive compounds; nutrients; nutraceuticals; an-tioxidant; HPLC; HPLC-MS
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Interests: pancreatic neoplasms; head and neck neoplasms; clinical dosimetry; special techniques - modulated intensity radiation therapy, stereotaxy
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Dear Colleagues,
Radiotherapy and chemotherapy remain the major curative therapies for cancer; unfortunately, both of these therapeutical approaches are associated with adverse effects, such as gastrointestinal mucositis secondary to radiation injury or bacterial and fungal infections. Oral mucositis occurs in 40% to 80% of patients treated with radio- and chemotherapy and clinically appears as mild erythema in the non-keratinized mucosa and progresses to ulcers with extremely painful symptoms. It is known that cancer treatments change the microbial environment, favoring an increase in the prevalence of more pathogenic non-albicans Candida (NAC) and also different bacteria. Several strategies have been indicated for the treatment of mucositis, such as low-level laser treatment, the use of analgesics or anti-inflammatories, and cryotherapy. Recently, the use of natural compounds extracted by different kinds of food—such as aloe vera, Vitis vinifera extracts, Curcuma longa, Glycyrrhiza glabra, etc.—with phytotherapeutic effects represents an alternative that should be investigated due to their beneficial action in the prevention or treatment of radio- and chemotherapy side effects on the gastrointestinal mucosa.
Dr. Annamaria Altomare
Dr. Laura Dugo
Dr. Michele Fiore
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal mucositis
- oral mucositis
- natural compounds
- phytotherapeutic effect
