Oral mucositis in paediatric patients after chemotherapy for cancer.
Oral mucositis (OM) can aggravate the paediatric patients’ clinical condition and elicit multiple debilitating oral symptoms that irrevocably alter patients’ quality of life.1,2 Nonetheless, the full spectrum of pathogenesis and factors in the development of OM remains poorly understood, in particular in the paediatric cancer population. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with OM in paediatric patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, and to compare the outcomes in paediatric patients with and without OM.