# OnCo record probiotics-treatment-diarrhoea (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#> .
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<https://onco.cc/technologies/probiotics-treatment-diarrhoea/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "probiotics-treatment-diarrhoea" ;
  schema:name "Probiotics for chemotherapy and radiotherapy diarrhoea"@en ;
  schema:description "Probiotic supplements (Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium) may reduce diarrhoea during pelvic radiotherapy for cervical, rectal and prostate cancer and some chemotherapy, but a 2018 Cochrane review rated the evidence low certainty and strains differ between trials. Patients in profound neutropenia or with a central line should not take them without advice, because bloodstream infections have occurred."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/probiotics-treatment-diarrhoea/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD008831.pub3> ;
  onco:status "phase-2" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:moderate" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/probiotics-antibiotic-stewardship-io/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-wei-cochrane-database-syst-rev/> .