Weight Loss during Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Malignancies: What Factors Impact It?

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 136-140

  Munshi, Anusheel ^a,c   Pandey, Manish Bhushan ^a   Durga, Tarun ^a   Pandey, Kailash Chander ^a   Bahadur, Sudhir ^b   Mohanti, Bidhu Kalyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c CR Park   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEGESTROL ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NUTRITION; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 2342467404     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc4702_5     Document Type: Article

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