Coming to your senses: detecting taste and smell alterations in chemotherapy patients. A systematic review.

Context: Taste alterations (TAs) and smell alterations (SAs) are frequently observed, yet understudied side effects in chemotherapy patients, considerably affecting patients' quality of life.

Objectives: This review provides a systematic evaluation of the literature on TAs and SAs in cancer chemotherapy patients and discloses understudied research questions.

Methods: A systematic methodology based on the PRISMA guidelines was applied to identify original research articles with TAs and SAs as primary outcomes in chemotherapy patients.

Taste alterations in breast and gynaecological cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: prevalence, course of severity, and quality of life correlates.

Background: Taste alterations (TAs) are frequently reported by chemotherapy patients. However, research on this topic is very scarce. The etiologies of TAs are not fully known and prevalences may vary across tumour types and chemotherapy regimens.