ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2021
Impact of early nutrition counseling in head and neck cancer patients with normal nutritional status.
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- Association of supportive care team intervention with nutritional status, adverse events, and treatment status in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing concurrent chemoradiotherapy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
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- Nutritional counselling for head and neck cancer patients treated with (chemo)radiation therapy: why, how, when, and what?Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
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- Nutritional Support in Cancer patients: update of the Italian Intersociety Working Group practical recommendations.Journal of Cancer · 2022Article
- Malnutrition management in oncology: An expert view on controversial issues and future perspectives.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Does nutrition support during chemotherapy increase long-term survival of cancer patients? Lessons from the past and future perspectives.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundNutritional counseling is frequently overlooked in cancer patients with normal nutritional status. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of nutritional counseling in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients with normal nutritional status prior to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT).
methodsA total of 243 patients with pretreatment normal nutritional status and locally advanced HNC receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) at three medical centers were enrolled. All patients were retrospectively allocated into the early (≤ 2 weeks, n = 105, 43.2%), late (> 2 weeks, n = 102, 42.0%), and no nutritional counseling groups (n = 36, 14.8%) according to the time interval between the date of CCRT initiation and the first date of nutritional counseling for comparison.
resultsThe 1-year overall survival rates were 95.0%, 87.5%, and 81.3% in the early, late, and no nutritional counseling groups (p = 0.035), respectively. The median body weight changes at end of CCRT were - 4.8% (range, - 13.3 to 8.7%), - 5.6% (range, - 21.9 to 5.6%), and - 8.6% (range, - 20.3 to 2.4%) in patients in the early, late, and no nutritional counseling groups, respectively. The early termination of chemotherapy rates and the incompletion rates of planned radiotherapy were 1.9% and 1.9%, 2.9%, and 2.0%, 13.9%, and 19.4% in patients in the early, late, and no nutritional counseling groups, respectively.
conclusionsOur findings strongly suggest that while some HNC patients may have pretreatment normal nutritional status, early nutritional counseling is nevertheless essential for the improvement of treatment tolerance and survival outcome.
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