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Mucositis Study Group & Resource Center

Chair Contact: Dorothy Keefe at dorothy.keefe@health.sa.gov.au and co chair Rajesh Lalla at lalla@nso2.uchc.edu

 All study group chairs and contact information
 Study Group Goals, Mission and Annual Meeting Minutes 

Guidelines & Tools 

 Updated (2005) and original (2002) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Mucositis and Supporting Literature

MASCC Symposium Presentations: Mucositis
 2007 St Gallen, Switzerland (search by track for Mucositis specific)
 2006 Toronto, Canada
 2005 Geneva, Switzerland
 2004 Miami, Florida
Related Links
"The following link leads to National Cancer Institute information on Oral Mucositis (health professional version). From this page, there are links to a patient version and spanish translations."
http://www.mascc.org/content/2.html National Cancer Institute information on Oral Mucositis
Related Publications
 Updated clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of mucositis
Keefe DM, Schubert MM, Elting LS, Sonis ST, Epstein JB, Raber-Durlacher JE, Migliorati CA, McGuire DB, Hutchins RD, Peterson DE; Mucositis Study Section of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer and the International Society for Oral Oncology.
Cancer. 2007 Mar 1;109(5):820-31.

http://www.mascc.org/content/2.html Mucositis-related articles from the Mucositis Study Group, published June 2006
The members of the Mucositis Study Group published several articles in the June 2006 issue of Supportive Care in Cancer. These articles were an outcome of the guidelines review process implemented in Geneva the previous year. Free access to full-text of these articles.

 Perspectives on cancer therapy-induced mucosal injury: Pathogenesis, measurement, epidemiology, and consequences for patients (p 1995-2025)
Stephen T. Sonis, Linda S. Elting, Dorothy Keefe, Douglas E. Peterson, Mark Schubert, Martin Hauer-Jensen, B. Nebiyou Bekele, Judith Raber-Durlacher, J. Peter Donnelly, Edward B. Rubenstein
Published Online: 19 Apr 2004

http://www.mascc.org/content/2.html Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of cancer therapy-induced oral and gastrointestinal mucositis (p 2026-2046)
Edward B. Rubenstein, Douglas E. Peterson, Mark Schubert, Dorothy Keefe, Deborah McGuire, Joel Epstein, Linda S. Elting, Philip C. Fox, Catherine Cooksley, Stephen T. Sonis
Published Online: 19 Apr 2004
Announcements
 Register now for the 2nd Annual Mucositis Research Workshop
The Mucositis Study Group of MASCC/ISOO is again hosting a one-day research workshop in conjunction with the 2008 MASCC/ISOO symposium in Houston. Numbers are limited so register today to reserve your seat.

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QuickLinks 
 Virtual Meeting
 Journal Reviews

 Pain Management Center

 Antiemetic Survey: Controlling Emesis

 Antiemetic Guidelines
Perugia International Cancer Conference

 Mucositis: Perspectives & Clinical Practice Guidelines

 MASCC Antiemesis Tool (MAT- with translations)

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