Lactobacillus plantarum DSM 6595 and Reduced Gastrointestinal Toxicity

• Decreasing the Adverse Effects in Pelvic Radiation Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Use of Probiotics.

  • 2023-01
  • RCT
  • Advances in radiation oncology 8(1)
  • • Irini Lazou Ahrén
    • Maria Bjurberg
    • Gunnar Steineck
    • Karin Bergmark
    • Bengt Jeppsson

  • PubMed: 36483069
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2022.101089

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Gastrointestinal Toxicity

  • High evidence

  a significant reduction in the mean number of days with >1 loose stool ... The benefit was even more pronounced in the 2 weeks following the end of radiation therapy

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes