Swallowing ability, food intake, and nutritional status in head and neck cancer.

Swallowing ability, food intake, and nutritional status in head and neck cancer.

Treatment of head and neck cancer has considerable impact on food intake and dependence on tube feeding due to chronic dysphagia. Therefore the association of swallowing therapy (SPT) with swallowing ability, nutritional status (weight loss 5% per month) and food intake (quality and quantity) of hea...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Compendium of Human Ecology Researches in the Philippines (2003 - 2013), 73
Main Author: Van Den Berg, M. G. A.
Other Authors: Padilla, L. M., Rasmussen-Conrad, E. L., Merkx, M. A. W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Nutritional status
Cancer