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Nutritional parameters associated with hospital admissions in patients being treated for head and neck cancer
- Source :
- Supportive Care in Cancer. 28:341-349
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- This study analysed nutritional parameters (baseline body mass index (BMI), weight changes and enteral nutrition (EN) use, and their association with hospital admissions during radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC)). A retrospective review of patients diagnosed with HNC and treated with radiotherapy between October 2012 and April 2014 was conducted. Data on each subject’s diagnosis, age, sex, chemotherapy, previous surgery, EN use, weight changes, and BMI were examined for their association with hospital admissions during treatment. Eighty-three patients were included, mean age (±standard deviation) = 61 (± 11 years). Thirty-four percent had self-reported weight loss at diagnosis, and mean BMI was 26.2 ± 5.3 kg/m2. Mean weight change during treatment was − 5.1 ± 6.2%. Ten patients used EN, with mean weight stabilisation during EN use (0.3 ± 5.1%). Higher presenting BMI, younger age, and definitive radiotherapy ± chemotherapy predicted greater weight loss (p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Chemotherapy
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Head and neck cancer
Weight change
medicine.disease
Radiation therapy
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Parenteral nutrition
Oncology
Weight loss
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Internal medicine
medicine
In patient
030212 general & internal medicine
medicine.symptom
business
Body mass index
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14337339 and 09414355
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Supportive Care in Cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........76d6becaefb5a67f2063ccd3717d2c7e