Mucositis Study Group & Resource Center
Study Group Goals, Mission and Annual Meeting Minutes
Chair Contacts
Chair:Rajesh Lalla at lalla@uchc.edu
Co-chairs: Joanne Bowen at joanne.bowen@adelaide.edu.au or joanne.bowen@imvs.sa.gov.au and Sharon Elad at sharon.elad@ekmd.huji.ac.il
All study group chairs and contact information
Mucositis Workshop Summaries
4th Annual Mucositis Research day
Mucositis Research Workshop Summary (
PDF, 220 KB) - Vancouver, Canada
June 22, 2010
3rd Annual Mucositis Research day
Mucositis Research Workshop Summary ( PDF, 72 KB) - Rome, Italy
June 23, 2009
Guidelines & Tools
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."
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.
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
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
