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Relief of pain · Patients being treated for cancer with established oral HSV infection (bone marrow transplant recipients / immunocompromised)

1 finding from 1 review

Interventions for the prevention and treatment of herpes simplex virus in patients being treated for cancer 2009 · Cochrane All outcomes
Time to first decrease in pain was significantly shorter in favour of oral aciclovir (median 3 days versus 16 days, P = 0.04; Shepp 1985). Time to complete resolution of pain was shorter with oral aciclovir than…
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