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Durmuş Etiz1, Bülent Orhan, Canan Demirüstü
1Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Eskişehir, Turkey. detiz@ogu.edu.tr
Background:
A number of oral toxicity scoring systems have been described, but their direct comparison has rarely been undertaken and little data exists. An impediment to mucositis research has been the lack of an accepted, validated scoring system. The objective of this study was to design a test and validation of scoring systems.
Materials And Methods:
Forty-three patients with head and neck malignancies who had been irradiated were evaluated. Five different mucositis scoring systems (World Health Organization, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, "Hickey", "Van der Schueren" and "Makkonen") were compared with each other.
Results:
Daily mucositis scores demonstrated a high correlation among scoring systems (P < 0.05 and coefficient of correlation kappa and r = 0.5-0.95). Objective mucositis scores demonstrated a strong correlation with symptoms.
Conclusions:
All scoring systems were equally valid. The exact grading of mucositis is achieved by combining clinical information about pain and nutritional status with oral mucosal reactions.
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