EFFICACY OF PROBIOTICS IN PREVENTING CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED DIARRHEA IN GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER PATIENTS.
- 2025-12-11
- RCT · n = 28
- Arquivos de gastroenterologia 62
- Gabriel Caio DE Souza
- Humberto Bezerra de Araujo Filho
- Cleyton Zanardo DE Oliveira
- Ana Paula Ribeiro Paiotti
- Nora Manoukian Forones
- PubMed: 41379184
- DOI: 10.1590/s0004-2803.24612025-020
- High evidence
The use of probiotics, compared to placebo, did not result in reduction of grade 2/3 diarrhea episodes ... Likewise, no statistically significant difference was observed in the overall incidence of diarrhea between the two groups ... suggesting a lack of benefit of administered probiotic for prevention of chemotherapy induced diarrhea among patients with gastrointestinal cancer.
- Effect
- Neutral
- Effect size
- Small
- Significant
- No