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Outcomes following interventions to sustain body weight in esophageal cancer patients starting preoperative therapy: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: To improve nutritional status and dysphagia, esophageal cancer patients starting neoadjuvant therapy in advance of curative-intent surgery may receive a jejunostomy tube (J-tube) or esophageal stent, or they may be managed without a feeding modality. We examined percent total weight loss...

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Autores principales: Velotta, Jeffrey B., Dusendang, Jennifer R., Kwak, Hyunjee, Huyser, Michelle, Patel, Ashish, Ashiku, Simon K., Herrinton, Lisa J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8482328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659814
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd-20-3220