Enteral feeding tubes in patients undergoing definitive chemoradiation therapy for head-and-neck cancer: A critical review

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 581-589

  Koyfman, Shlomo A ^a   Adelstein, David J ^a  

^a TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMORADIATION; CRITICAL REVIEW; CURRENT DATA; DRY MOUTH; ENTERAL FEEDING; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PATIENT POPULATION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WEIGHT LOSS;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DISEASES; FEEDING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ABSCESS; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERAL FEEDING TUBE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MORBIDITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STOMACH TUBE; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORECASTING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84866736314     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.03.053     Document Type: Review

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