Comparison of the effect of individual dietary counselling and of standard nutritional care on weight loss in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 872-877

  Van Den Berg, Manon G A ^a   Rasmussen Conrad, Ellen L ^a   Wei, Koko H ^a,b   Lintz Luidens, Heleen ^a   Kaanders, Johannes H A M ^a   Merkx, Matthias A W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dietary counselling; Head and neck cancer; Malnutrition; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; DIETETICS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

COUNSELING; DIETETICS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77957286191     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510001315     Document Type: Article

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