Subjective taste and smell changes in treatment-naive people with solid tumours

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3201-3208

  Spotten, L ^a,b   Corish, C ^a,b,c   Lorton, C ^b,d   Dhuibhir, P Ui ^d   O'Donoghue N ^b,d   O'Connor B ^c,d   Cunningham, M ^e   El Beltagi, N ^e   Gillham, C ^e   Walsh, D ^b,c,e  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b The University of Dublin   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Palliative Medicine   (Ireland)

^e ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Nutrition; Radiation therapy; Smell; Taste

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SALTINESS; SATIETY; SMELLING DISORDER; SOLID TUMOR; SWEETNESS; TASTE AND SMELL CHANGE; TASTE DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPLICATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; ODOR; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMELL; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960109284     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-016-3133-2     Document Type: Article

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