Abstract
The monograph is primarily focused to present basic complications within oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract in cancer patients to oncology and haemato-oncology healthcare providers. The introduction provides a summary of anatomy, histopathology, and physiology of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract, describes microbiological colonization of the oral cavity and the possibilities open to clinical, endoscopy and imaging examination methods.
The following chapters deal with specific oral cavity conditions related to damage as a result both of oncological treatment (toxic mucositis, post-irradiation mucositis) and infections, tumour-related damage, other specific conditions and osteonecrosis of jaw. A separate chapter is concerned with dietary measures and nutrition, oesophagus and gastrointestinal post-radiotherapy damage, systemic toxicity of cancer treatment, surgery resections problems, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation.
The monograph contains an index and lists of abbreviations and references.