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- ItemSomente MetadadadosCancer treatment in determination of hearing loss(Assoc brasileira otorrinolaringologia & cirurgia cervicofacial, 2016) de Oliveira, Priscila Feliciano; Oliveira, Camila Silva; Andrade, Joice Santos; do Carmo Santos, Tamara Figueiredo; de Oliveira-Barreto, Aline Cabral [UNIFESP]Introduction: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy in oncology have repercussions in hearing health, and can damage structures of the inner ear. These repercussions usually, result in a bilateral and irreversible hearing loss. Objective: To identify sensorineural hearing toss cases with complaints of tinnitus and difficulty in speech understanding and investigate their relationship with the types of chemotherapy and radiotherapy the patients received. Methods: Cross-sectional, clinical, observational, analytical, historical cohort study of 58 subjects treated in a public hospital in the state of Sergipe, diagnosed with neoplasia. The subjects were submitted to anamnesis, conventional pure tone audiometry, and speech recognition threshold. Results: Of the 116 ears, 25.9% presented sensorioneural hearing loss characterized by changes in high frequencies. There was a positive correlation between hearing loss and the association of chemotherapy and radiotherapy (p= 0.035