Nathaniel Treister, DMD, DMSc
Assistant professor of Oral Medicine at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the chief of the divisions of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts- Managing the Oral Health Complications of Chemotherapy
Monday, June 1st, 2015
What are the oral complications of cancer therapy that hematologists/oncologists should be aware of? The treatments for hematologic malignancies – chemotherapy, combinations of chemotherapy, or hematopoietic cell transplantation – are associated with a variety of oral complications. First and foremost is the risk of infection due to the profound immunosuppressive and neutropenic effects of chemotherapy. [...]
