Population-based comparison of two feeding tube approaches for head and neck cancer patients receiving concurrent systemic-radiation therapy: Is a prophylactic feeding tube approach harmful or helpful?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3433-3439

  Olson, Robert ^a,b   Karam, Irene ^a,b   Wilson, Gavin ^b   Bowman, Angela ^a   Lee, Christopher ^a,b   Wong, Frances ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Feeding tube; Gastrostomy tube; Head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUBE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PALLIATIVE CARE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84889086207     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1936-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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