Percutaneous Endoscopically Guided Gastrostomy in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
- 1 January 1991
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Recent Results in Cancer Research
- Vol. 121, 269-282
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84138-5_31
Abstract
Before any therapy starts, 25%–50% of patients with tumors in the head and neck region have an already markedly reduced nutritional status [7, 10, 11, 26]. The causes are patient (life style etc.) as well as tumor specific [reviews in 6, 12, 26]. Nevertheless, these patients require aggressive multimodal tumor treatment, and the side effects of treatment [1, 3, 9–11, 18, 19, 27] induce further deterioration of the nutritional status.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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