Nutritional support in head and neck cancer: How and why?

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 639-646

  Ravasco, Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

diet; head neck cancer; morbidity; nutritional counselling; nutritional status; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANOREXIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPHAGIA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FATIGUE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; ODYNOPHAGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960438535     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: 14735741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CAD.0b013e328345b4c5     Document Type: Review

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