The effect of honey compared to conventional treatment on healing of radiotherapy-induced skin toxicity in breast cancer patients

Marieke Moolenaar Hospital Pharmacy Midden-Brabant, TweeSteden hospital and St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 90107, 5000 LA, Tilburg, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]

Robert Louwrens Poorter Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Bernard Verbeeten Institute, PO Box 90120, 5000 LA, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Petrus Paulus Gerardus Van Der Toorn Department of Radiation Oncology, Catharina Hospital, PO Box 1350, 5602 ZA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Albert Willem Lenderink Hospital Pharmacy Midden-Brabant, TweeSteden hospital and St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 90107, 5000 LA, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Philip Poortmans Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Bernard Verbeeten Institute, PO Box 90120, 5000 LA, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Antonius Cornelis Gerardus Egberts Hospital Pharmacy Midden-Brabant, TweeSteden hospital and St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 90107, 5000 LA, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Utrecht University, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences – Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacotherapy, PO Box 80.082, 3508 TB, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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