Prophylactic feeding tubes for patients with locally advanced head-and-neck cancer undergoing combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy-systematic review and recommendations for clinical practice

Current Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Orphanidou, Charitini ^a   Biggs, K ^b   Johnston, M E ^c   Wright, J R ^b   Bowman, A ^a   Hotte, S J ^b   Esau, A ^d   Myers, C ^e   Blunt, V ^f   Lafleur, M ^b   Sheehan, B ^a   Griffin, M A ^g  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Technical and methodological consultant   (Canada)

^d TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^e CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^g Dr H Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Head and neck cancer; Practice guideline; Systematic review; Tube feeding

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADVANCED CANCER; CANADA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUTRITION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUBE FEEDING;

EID: 80051512546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17187729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3747/co.v18i4.749     Document Type: Review

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