Rui Amaral Mendes, adjunct professor of oral and maxillofacial medicine and diagnostic sciences at the School of Dental Medicine, recently co-authored an article titled “Guidance on mucositis assessment from the MASCC Mucositis Study Group and ISOO: An International Delphi Study” published by eClinicalMedicine/The Lancet.
Mucositis assessment is heterogeneously adopted and poorly guided, impacting evidence synthesis and translation. The researchers’ study aimed to establish expert recommendations for how existing mucositis assessment tools should be used, in clinical care and trials contexts, to improve the consistency of mucositis assessment.