Prebiotics a potential means to ameliorate acute intestinal injury and to diminish the risk of chronic radiation enteritis
Radiotherapy and chemo-radiotherapy increasingly often achieve cure in gynaecological and prostate cancer, but radiation enteritis/proctitis remains a problem in acute phases of treatment in more than 70% of patients. In most cases this resolves rapidly, but in at least 5% of patients it persists or...
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University College London (University of London)
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.626683 |