Alteration of the sense of taste is a common side effect for head and neck cancer patients after radiation therapy and supplementation of zinc sulfate has been thought to help quickly regain the sense of taste in this patient population.
Now, in a new study recently released by the International Journal for Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics (the official journal of ASTRO), zinc sulfate has been found to have no significant impact in either preventing or curing taste alteration in these radiation therapy-treated cancer patients.
According to Michele Y. Halyard, M.D., lead author of the study and a radiation oncologist at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale …read more