Nutritional interventions in head and neck cancer patients undergoing chemoradiotherapy: A narrative review

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 265-276

  Bossola, Maurizio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Enteral nutrition; Gastrostomy; Head and neck cancer; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Nutritional counseling; Oral nutritional supplements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DEHYDRATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ENTERIC FEEDING; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPLICATION; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALNUTRITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84920367135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7010265     Document Type: Article

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