Enteral feeding methods for nutritional management in patients with head and neck cancers being treated with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

Nugent, Brenda; Lewis, Siân; M. O’Sullivan, Joe

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd007904.pub3

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Enteral feeding methods for nutritional management in patients with head and neck cancers being treated with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

Published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews • Jan 29, 2013

Authors:

Brenda Nugent

Siân Lewis

Joe M. O’Sullivan

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in The Cochrane Library in Issue 3, 2010.For many patients with head and neck cancer, oral nutrition will not provide adequate nourishment during treatment with radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy due to the acute toxicity of treatment...

Subject

Medicine

Head and neck cancer

Chemoradiotherapy

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