Nutritional intervention improves the caloric and proteic ingestion of head and neck cancer patients under radiotherapy La intervención nutricional mejora la ingestión calórica y proteica de los pacientes con cáncer de cabeza y cuello sometidos a radioterapia

Malnutrition is commonly associated with head and neck cancer, due especially to anorexia, which is aggravated by radiotherapy. The objective of this study was to evaluate modifications to nutritional ingestion following three types of nutritional intervention. Sixty-four male out-patients (62.1 ± 1...

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Main Authors: M.ª C. Gonçalves Dias, M.ª de Fátima Nunes Marucci, W. Nadalin, D. L. Waitzberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arán Ediciones, S. L. 2005-10-01
Series:Nutrición Hospitalaria
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Online Access:http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0212-16112005000700003