Effect of oral nutritional supplementation on weight loss and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube rates in patients treated with radiotherapy for oropharyngeal carcinoma

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-289

  Lee, Haidy ^a   Havrila, Carole ^b   Bravo, Vikki ^b   Shantz, Kellie ^a   Diaz, Kellie ^a   Larner, James ^a   Read, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nutrition; Oropharynx; PEG tube; Radiotherapy; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 41049099881     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0313-0     Document Type: Article

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