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Have you ever used sodium alginate to treat radiation-induced mucositis of the upper digestive tract?

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Radiation Oncology · Cancer Care Northwest

Below are randomized results to what may be the referenced study: Yokoyama et al., Annals of Oncology 2019.

Here's the punch line: "Sodium alginate did not show a significant preventative effect on radiation-induced severe esophagitis in patients with NSCLC."

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