Head & Neck Cancer
Mucositis and dermatitis in head and neck cancer patients improved with zinc supplementation
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, August 28th, 2006
According to a recent article published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, scientists in Taiwan conducted research "to determine whether zinc supplementation can accelerate the healing of mucositis and dermatitis after radiotherapy. In this double-blind study, patients were placed into 2 randomized groups (experimental and control) of 50 patients each. The groups were homogeneous with respect to medical history, tumor characteristics, and therapeutic details."
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