A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy

PURPOSE: As the practice of nutritional support in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) during curative radio(chemo)therapy is quite heterogeneous, we carried out a survey among European specialists. METHODS: A 19-item questionnaire was drawn up and disseminated via the web by European scientifi...

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Autores principales: Bozzetti, Federico, Gurizzan, Cristina, Lal, Simon, Van Gossum, Andre’, Wanten, Geert, Golusinski, Wojciech, Hosal, Sefik, Bossi, Paolo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Head and Neck
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34146151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-06920-4
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author Bozzetti, Federico
Gurizzan, Cristina
Lal, Simon
Van Gossum, Andre’
Wanten, Geert
Golusinski, Wojciech
Hosal, Sefik
Bossi, Paolo
author_facet Bozzetti, Federico
Gurizzan, Cristina
Lal, Simon
Van Gossum, Andre’
Wanten, Geert
Golusinski, Wojciech
Hosal, Sefik
Bossi, Paolo
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description PURPOSE: As the practice of nutritional support in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) during curative radio(chemo)therapy is quite heterogeneous, we carried out a survey among European specialists. METHODS: A 19-item questionnaire was drawn up and disseminated via the web by European scientific societies involved in HNC and nutrition. RESULTS: Among 220 responses, the first choice was always for the enteral route; naso-enteral tube feeding was preferred to gastrostomy in the short term, while the opposite for period longer than 1 month. Indications were not solely related to the patient’s nutritional status, but also to the potential burden of the therapy. CONCLUSION: European HNC specialists contextualize the use of the nutritional support in a comprehensive plan of therapy. There is still uncertainty relating to the role of naso-enteral feeding versus gastrostomy feeding in patients requiring < 1 month nutritional support, an issue that should be further investigated.
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spelling pubmed-88973672022-03-08 A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy Bozzetti, Federico Gurizzan, Cristina Lal, Simon Van Gossum, Andre’ Wanten, Geert Golusinski, Wojciech Hosal, Sefik Bossi, Paolo Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Head and Neck PURPOSE: As the practice of nutritional support in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) during curative radio(chemo)therapy is quite heterogeneous, we carried out a survey among European specialists. METHODS: A 19-item questionnaire was drawn up and disseminated via the web by European scientific societies involved in HNC and nutrition. RESULTS: Among 220 responses, the first choice was always for the enteral route; naso-enteral tube feeding was preferred to gastrostomy in the short term, while the opposite for period longer than 1 month. Indications were not solely related to the patient’s nutritional status, but also to the potential burden of the therapy. CONCLUSION: European HNC specialists contextualize the use of the nutritional support in a comprehensive plan of therapy. There is still uncertainty relating to the role of naso-enteral feeding versus gastrostomy feeding in patients requiring < 1 month nutritional support, an issue that should be further investigated. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-06-19 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8897367/ /pubmed/34146151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-06920-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Head and Neck
Bozzetti, Federico
Gurizzan, Cristina
Lal, Simon
Van Gossum, Andre’
Wanten, Geert
Golusinski, Wojciech
Hosal, Sefik
Bossi, Paolo
A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
title A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
title_full A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
title_fullStr A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
title_full_unstemmed A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
title_short A European survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
title_sort european survey on the practice of nutritional interventions in head–neck cancer patients undergoing curative treatment with radio(chemo)therapy
topic Head and Neck
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34146151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-06920-4
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