Lactobacillus jensenii LBV 116 and Reduced Oral Mucositis Severity

• Effects of probiotic supplementation on related side effects after chemoradiotherapy in cancer patients.

  • 2022-10-28
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 97
  • Frontiers in oncology 12
  • • Yongkai Lu
    • Xiaoqin Luo
    • Di Yang
    • Yi Li
    • Tuotuo Gong
    • Binglin Li
    • Jian Cheng
    • Ruijuan Chen
    • Xin Guo
    • Wei Yuan

  • PubMed: 36387216
  • DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1032145

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  • Reduced Oral Mucositis Severity

  • High evidence

  ...and the frequency of oral mucositis in patients with head and neck tumors were also significantly lower (OR: 0.28, 95% CI: 0.18 - 0.43; P < 0.005) after the oral administration of probiotics.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes