Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers
Cancerous patients, under the chemotherapy or radiotherapy, are at high risk of malnutrition due to the associated complications with the treatment procedures such as chewing problems, dysphagia, nausea etc. Considering the patients’ history of alcohol consumption, smoking or any other diseases and...
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Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
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| description | Cancerous patients, under the chemotherapy or radiotherapy, are at high risk of malnutrition due to the associated complications with the treatment procedures such as chewing problems, dysphagia, nausea etc. Considering the patients’ history of alcohol consumption, smoking or any other diseases and performing several physical examinations are essential in early identification of high-risk patients for nutritional complications, losing unintentional weight and fat free mass. In this review, we tried to briefly explain the risk of malnutrition in patients with head and neck cancers who are undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Oral nutrition, nasogastric tube and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy are different methods of nutritional interventions, which have been compared due to their efficacy in maintaining the patients’ weight. In this study, we reviewed the results obtained in clinical trials about the efficacy of intense nutritional intervention on limiting the chemoradiotherapy-associated complications in patients with head and neck cancers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4bb78076a96943189927eea3dd6b695a2022-12-27T13:12:21ZengMashhad University of Medical SciencesReviews in Clinical Medicine2345-62562345-68922015-04-0122767910.17463/RCM.2015.02.0053874Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancersSharifeh Haghjoo0Sinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranCancerous patients, under the chemotherapy or radiotherapy, are at high risk of malnutrition due to the associated complications with the treatment procedures such as chewing problems, dysphagia, nausea etc. Considering the patients’ history of alcohol consumption, smoking or any other diseases and performing several physical examinations are essential in early identification of high-risk patients for nutritional complications, losing unintentional weight and fat free mass. In this review, we tried to briefly explain the risk of malnutrition in patients with head and neck cancers who are undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Oral nutrition, nasogastric tube and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy are different methods of nutritional interventions, which have been compared due to their efficacy in maintaining the patients’ weight. In this study, we reviewed the results obtained in clinical trials about the efficacy of intense nutritional intervention on limiting the chemoradiotherapy-associated complications in patients with head and neck cancers.https://rcm.mums.ac.ir/article_3874_a661d728a62384321d941aa36d813e84.pdfmalnutritionhead and neck canceranorexiaweight lossbody mass index |
| spellingShingle | Sharifeh Haghjoo Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers Reviews in Clinical Medicine malnutrition head and neck cancer anorexia weight loss body mass index |
| title | Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers |
| title_full | Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers |
| title_fullStr | Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers |
| title_short | Malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers |
| title_sort | malnutrition associated with head and neck cancers |
| topic | malnutrition head and neck cancer anorexia weight loss body mass index |
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