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Assessment And Oral Care: An Essential Nursing Activity For Patients Receiving Cancer Treatment, Radhika R. Pai, Ravikiran Ongole, Sourjya Banerjee
Assessment And Oral Care: An Essential Nursing Activity For Patients Receiving Cancer Treatment, Radhika R. Pai, Ravikiran Ongole, Sourjya Banerjee
Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences
Head and neck radiation therapy and chemoradiation are inherently associated with severe oral complications such as oral mucositis, infection, and functional issues of the oral cavity, significantly affecting the quality of oral cavity health in cancer patients. Oral care in cancer patients is a vital part of nursing care but can be seen as a most neglected job, along with other duties or a tedious task to undertake. Recognizing the effect of cancer treatment and delivery of oral care as per the specific guidelines to cancer patients is not well known, and it is not clear. Literature review reports that …