A disease-specific enteral nutrition formula improves nutritional status and functional performance in patients with head and neck and esophageal cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy: Results of a randomized, controlled, multicenter trial

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3343-3353

  Fietkau, Rainer ^a   Lewitzki, Victor ^b   Kuhnt, Thomas ^b   Hölscher, Tobias ^c   Hess, Clemens F ^d   Berger, Bernhard ^e   Wiegel, Thomas ^f   Rödel, Claus ^g   Niewald, Marcus ^h   Hermann, Robert M ^d,i   Lubgan, Dorota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^g GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ Centre for Radiotherapy Westerstede   (Germany)

Author keywords

concurrent chemoradiotherapy; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; esophageal cancer; head and neck cancer; nutritional status; nutritional therapy; supportive care

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FLUOROURACIL; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY CELL MASS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FAT FREE MASS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CONCURRENT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL THERAPY; SUPPORTIVE CARE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883599068     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28197     Document Type: Article

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