Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Effect of Ascorbic Acid Oral Supplementation in Assessing the Severity of Oral Mucositis in Chemo-radiation Therapy of Head and Neck Cancers.
Brief Summary:
The surrounding controversies both advocating and simultaneously opposing the use of vitamin C, mostly extrapolating animal models to human models, it has not been used individually to assess the severity of oral mucositis during chemoradiotherapy.
The present study is undertaken to evaluate the effect of vitamin C oral supplements in assessing the severity of oral mucositis during chemoradiotherapy for oral cancer.