Selenium supplementation in radiotherapy patients : do we need to measure selenium levels in serum or blood regularly prior radiotherapy?

  • Considering the review by Puspitasari and colleagues, an additional discussion of the endpoints of the Se supplementation studies described would be helpful. In our view, selenium can safely be given to selenium-deficient cancer patients prior to and during radiotherapy. Therefore, in order to help the radiation oncologist in decision making, we strongly advocate to determine the selenium status prior to and during a potential adjuvant selenium supplementation, e.g. when trying to ease the side-effects of radiation treatment or in the aftercare situation when the selenium status may become insufficient.

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Author:Ralph Muecke, Oliver Micke, Lutz Schomburg, Klaus Kisters, Jens Buentzel, Jutta Huebner, Jan Kriz
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-371820
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-014-0289-0
ISSN:1748-717X
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25511764
Parent Title (English):Radiation Oncology
Publisher:BioMed Central
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/12/16
Date of first Publication:2014/12/16
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/04/29
Tag:Clinical studies; Radiotherapy; Selenium; Selenoproteins; Supplementation
Volume:9
Issue:289
Page Number:2
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© 2014 Muecke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
HeBIS-PPN:368953122
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0