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Malnutrition in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal cancer—prevalence and relationship with oral symptoms: an explorative study

PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess prevalence of malnutrition after treatment for oral/oropharyngeal cancer and to explore how oral symptoms relate to malnutrition after treatment. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, malnutrition (weight loss ≥ 10% in 6 months or ≥5% in 1 month), oral symptoms...

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Autores principales: Jager-Wittenaar, Harriët, Dijkstra, Pieter U., Vissink, Arjan, van Oort, Rob P., van der Laan, Bernard F. A. M., Roodenburg, Jan L. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-010-1001-z