A feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial of oral feeding plus pre-treatment gastrostomy tube versus oral feeding plus as-needed nasogastric tube feeding in patients undergoing chemoradiation for head and neck cancer (TUBE trial): study protocol

BACKGROUND: There are 7000 new cases of head and neck squamous cell cancers (HNSCC) treated by the NHS each year. Stage III and IV HNSCC can be treated non-surgically by radio therapy (RT) or chemoradiation therapy (CRT). CRT can affect eating and drinking through a range of side effects with 90 % o...

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Autores principales: Paleri, Vinidh, Wood, Joshua, Patterson, Joanne, Stocken, Deborah D., Cole, Mike, Vale, Luke, Franks, Jeremy, Guerrero-Urbano, Teresa, Donnelly, Rachael, Barclay, Stewart, Rapley, Tim, Rousseau, Nikki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27965848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-016-0069-8

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