# OnCo record oral-cryotherapy-mucositis (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/oral-cryotherapy-mucositis/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "oral-cryotherapy-mucositis" ;
  schema:name "Oral cryotherapy (ice chips) to prevent mucositis"@en ;
  schema:description "Sucking ice chips for half an hour around a bolus dose of fluorouracil or high-dose melphalan roughly halves the risk of painful mouth ulcers. It costs nothing and is recommended in international mucositis guidelines."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/oral-cryotherapy-mucositis/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_mucositis> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011552.pub2>, <https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.33100> ;
  onco:status "standard-of-care" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:strong" ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/rejuvenation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/cytotoxic-chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/scalp-cooling/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/dry-mouth-teeth-after-head-neck-radiotherapy/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/fluorouracil/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/melphalan/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/mascc/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/mucositis/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-elad-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-riley-cochrane-database-syst-rev/> .