Effect of nutritional interventions on nutritional status, quality of life and mortality in patients with head and neck cancer receiving (chemo)radiotherapy: A systematic review

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 671-678

  Langius, Jacqueline A E ^a   Zandbergen, Myrna C ^a   Eerenstein, Simone E J ^a   van Tulder, Maurits W ^b   Leemans, C René ^a   Kramer, Mark H H ^a   Weijs, Peter J M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dietary counseling; Head and neck cancer; Malnutrition; Radiotherapy; Tube feeding; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DYSPHAGIA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VOMITING; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CRT; DIETARY COUNSELING; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CANCER; HNSCC; MALNUTRITION; NASOGASTRIC; NG; ONS; ORAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS; PEG; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTRONOMY; QOL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RCT; RT; TUBE FEEDING; WEIGHT LOSS;

ADULT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FOODS, SPECIALIZED; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; NUTRITIONISTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84883552370     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.06.012     Document Type: Review

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