Mucositis Research Analysis

Summary of Mucositis

Scientific Information on Mucositis

The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect mucositis

Grade	Level of Evidence [show legend]
	Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials
	Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled
	Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies
	Uncontrolled or observational studies only

Level of Evidence ? The amount of high quality evidence. The mo re evidence, the more we can trust the results.	Outcome	Magnitude of effect ? The direction and size of the supplement's impact on each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.	Consistency of research results ? Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.	Notes
	Zinc	Minor	Moderate See all 4 studies	Decreases in the severity but not occurrence of mucositis have been reported in cancer patients undergoing both radiotherapy and chemotherapy, although the benefits seem unreliable
	Curcumin	Minor	- See study	Symptoms of mucositis have been noted to be decreased with curcumin supplementation

All comparative evidence is now gathered in our A-to-Z Supplement Reference.

The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here.