Impact of nutrition on outcome: A prospective randomized controlled trial in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 659-668

  Ravasco, Paula ^a   Monteiro Grillo, Isabel ^a,b   Vidal, Pedro Marques ^a   Camilo, Maria Ermelinda ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dietary counseling; Head neck cancer; Morbidity; Outcomes; Quality of life; Radiotherapy; Supplements; Wasting

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NYSTATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DYSGEUSIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NAUSEA; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONGUE CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WASTING SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; COUNSELING; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23444450540     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20221     Document Type: Article

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