title: [Studies progress in preventing xerostomia after radiotherapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma].
abstract: Radiotherapy is the main way to treat the Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. But there are a lot of serious complications, the most common one of then is radioactive xerostomia. It seriously affect the patients's quality of life, even make patients change or stop their radiotherapy. It is extremely important to prevent and treat xerostomia caused by radiotherapy.
authors.forename: Dongjie
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Zhemin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Zhiwen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma; D006801:Humans; D000077274:Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011788:Quality of Life; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014987:Xerostomia / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*