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My warmest gratitude to the Hellenic Cancer Society - EAE and the Filothei Psychiko Branch, the President Mrs. Anastasia Lykouri Aggelaki and the Members of the Board of Directors for the honorary invitation to deliver a presentation concerning the o...[Read more]

Professor Ourania Nikolatou-Galiti has the great honor to present the important contribution of Oral Health to the cancer patient. The online seminar "The Mouth: A reflection of your health and of cancer" is organized by the Kozani branch of the He...[Read more]

Dry mouth, taste changes, dry lips, and pain are often problems of chemotherapy and increase when the patient has periodontitis. Patients with good oral hygiene have a reduced likelihood of complications and toxic effects from chemotherapy. In contr...[Read more]

Medications, which target and protect the bone from complications of metastasis, have been related with osteonecrosis of the jaw, a potentially serious lesion. The concurrent use of those medications with targeted therapies, mainly inhibitors of angi...[Read more]

The 2nd International Symposium on medication related osteonecrosis of the jaws in Copenhagen took place in 2 November 2018 [www.righospitalet.dk/MRONJ]. The medications which are related to MRONJ are mainly the anti-resorptive agents targeting the b...[Read more]

The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess patient adherence to an oral preventive measures protocol and its impact on cancer treatment outcomes. [1] The study included 133 patients, who had received radiotherapy for oral cancer. Patients...[Read more]

Patients with head and neck cancers, including oral cancers, may have difficulties in eating, they may experience fatigue, loss of appetite and weight. Those problems may be a consequence of their cancer or may be related to their treatments for canc...[Read more]