Radiation Oncology

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What treatments, after appropriate dose reductions/delays, do you offer for patients with oxaliplatin-induced cold allodynia/dysesthesia?

Do medications that help with painful chemotherapy-induced sensory neuropathy also help with the cold neuropathy?

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How do you manage radiation plexopathy?

How does this strategy change depending on the acuity or chronicity of the symptoms?

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When treating sialorrhea in ALS patients, what treatment schedule do you use?

Assouline et al., PMID 24411632 recommend delivering 500cGy x 4 fractions = 2000cGy on days 1, 3, 8, 10. Do you follow this schedule, treat every othe...

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The Laryngoscope, 2016-01

The role of radiation therapy in the management of sialorrhea: A systematic review.

Journal of the neurological sciences, 2011-09-15

Unilateral parotid electron beam radiotherapy as palliative treatment for sialorrhea in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

J. Neurol. Sci., 2008-12-15

Significant clinical improvement in radiation-induced lumbosacral polyradiculopathy by a treatment combining pentoxifylline, tocopherol, and clodronate (Pentoclo).

J Clin Oncol, 2003 Jul 01

Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of combined pentoxifylline and tocopherol for regression of superficial radiation-induced fibrosis.

Int J Radiat Biol, 2018 Apr 27

Montelukast attenuates radioactive I131-induced pulmonary damage on rats.

Aesthet Surg J, 2010 May-Jun

Effects of Singulair (montelukast) treatment for capsular contracture.

Turk Gogus Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Derg, 2018 Sep 16

Protective effect of cysteinyl leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

ESMO open, 2023 Apr 03

A randomized controlled trial of hand/foot-cooling by hilotherapy to prevent oxaliplatin-related peripheral neuropathy in patients with malignancies of the digestive system.

JAMA, 2013-04-03

Effect of duloxetine on pain, function, and quality of life among patients with chemotherapy-induced painful peripheral neuropathy: a randomized clinical trial.

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, 2014-06

Improved time to treatment failure with an intermittent oxaliplatin strategy: results of CONcePT.

J. Clin. Oncol.,

OPTIMOX1: a randomized study of FOLFOX4 or FOLFOX7 with oxaliplatin in a stop-and-Go fashion in advanced colorectal cancer--a GERCOR study.

J Clin Oncol, 2020 Jul 14

Prevention and Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Survivors of Adult Cancers: ASCO Guideline Update.

JAMA internal medicine, 2024 Sep 01

Preventive Effect of Neuromuscular Training on Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2025 Mar 25

Core preoperative symptoms and patients' symptom experiences in oral cancer: a mixed-methods study.

Pain, 2020 Feb

Oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy occurs through impairment of haemoglobin proton buffering and is reversed by carbonic anhydrase inhibitors.

American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2014 Jan 01

Prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.

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