Amifostine also significantly reduced the risk of developing mucositis, esophagitis, xerostomia and dysphagia. 8. Radiation Pneumonitis and Mortality and Outcomes The data for survival and outcome in patients with radiation pneumonitis is influenced by concurrent malignancy. A retrospective study published ...
Oral mucositis is another inflammatory, severe, and dose limiting side effect of RT, namely of advanced head and neck cancer, and Haagen et al. evaluated celecoxib's radioprotective effects in a mouse tongue model [129]. Although COX-2 was found to be implied in the epithelial response to ...