Weight loss during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A prospective study from Northern China

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 873-879

  Qiu, Chen ^a   Yang, Ning ^a   Tian, Guangliang ^a   Liu, Huizhong ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 80051714089     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2011.582223     Document Type: Article

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