Dietary counselling and nutritional support in oropharyngeal cancer patients treated with radiotherapy: persistent weight loss during 1-year follow-ups

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 54 - 59
• Main Authors: Vlooswijk, C P, van Rooij, P H E, Kruize, J C, Schuring, H A, Al-Mamgani, A, de Roos, N M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.01.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/67; 692/700/2814; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Body Mass Index; Body Weight; Cancer patients; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - complications; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - mortality; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - radiotherapy; Chair Nutrition and Disease; Chair Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse; Clinical Nutrition; Counseling; Deglutition Disorders - complications; Diet; Diet therapy; Dietary Supplements; Disease Management; Epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Global Nutrition; Health aspects; HNE Nutrition and Disease; HNE Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse; HNE Voeding en Gezondheid in de Levenscyclus; HNE Voeding en Ziekte; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Malnutrition - etiology; Malnutrition - prevention & control; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Mucositis - complications; Nutrition and Disease; Nutrition therapy; Nutritional Support; original-article; Oropharyngeal Neoplasms - complications; Oropharyngeal Neoplasms - mortality; Oropharyngeal Neoplasms - radiotherapy; Pharyngeal cancer; Physiological aspects; Public Health; Radiation therapy; Retrospective Studies; Survival; Survival analysis; Throat cancer; Toxicity; Voeding en Ziekte; Weight control; Weight Loss; Wereldvoeding
• ISSN: 0954-3007; 1476-5640
• DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2015.102

Background/Objectives: The need for dietary counselling and nutritional support in oropharyngeal cancer patients is generally accepted. However, evidence for the effectiveness is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe dietary counselling, nutritional support, body weight and toxicity during a...