Prevention of oropharyngeal candidiasis during radiotherapy and chemotherapy for cancer of the upper respiratory and digestive tracts

Valdazo, A.

Revue de Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie 104(5): 457-458

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334
PMID: 6675124
Document Number: 219813
Twenty-five patients undergoing radiotherapy were each given 5 capsules of ultra-levure (Saccharomyces boulardii [RMVM 18, 1893]) morning and evening for 6 weeks. A second group of 25 patients receiving chemotherapy were given 3 capsules of ultra-levure 3 times/day for 2 months. Buccopharyngeal Candida infection developed in only one patient (undergoing radiotherapy).

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