ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021
Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer-More than Just a Comorbidity?
Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Following Head and Neck Chemoradiation: A Scoping Review With Exploratory Meta-Analysis.Head & neck · 2026Pooled it
- Oral Cancer and Sleep Disturbances: A Narrative Review on Exploring the Bidirectional Relationship.Cancers · 2025Review
- Sleep Quality in Head and Neck Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Observational
- Comorbidities and Laryngeal Cancer in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy Versus Sleep Disturbances for NSCLC Patients.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- A Rare Kimura's Disease in the Oral Cavity with Severe Sleep Apnea: Case Report and Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
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- Heart failure and cancer: From active exposure to passive adaption.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.OTO openReview
- Mapping the comorbidome: A novel analysis of the associations between obstructive sleep apnea and its comorbidities in Colombia.Science progressArticle
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common type of sleep-disordered breathing with growing prevalence. Its presence has been associated with poor quality of life and serious comorbidities. There is increasing evidence for coexisting obstructive sleep apnea in patients suffering from head and neck cancer, a condition that ranks among the top ten most common types of cancer worldwide. Routinely, patients with head and neck cancer are treated with surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy or a combination of these, all possibly interfering with the anatomy of the oral cavity, pharynx or larynx. Thus, cancer treatment might worsen already existing obstructive sleep apnea or trigger its occurrence. Hypoxia, the hallmark feature of obstructive sleep apnea, has an impact on cancer biology and its cure. Early diagnosis and sufficient treatment of coexisting obstructive sleep apnea in patients with head and neck cancer may improve quality of life and could also potentially improve oncological outcomes.
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