[Long Term Monitoring of Nutritional, Clinical Status and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer Patients]
| Autor: | Jana Bielmeierová, Eva Vejražková, Eva Malá, Milan Vošmik, Martin Jindra, Jakub Novosad, Luboš Sobotka |
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| Jazyk: | čeština |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Nutritional Status law.invention Body Mass Index Enteral Nutrition Quality of life Randomized controlled trial Weight loss law Internal medicine medicine Humans Aged Gastrostomy business.industry Mortality rate Head and neck cancer Hypopharyngeal cancer Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Parenteral nutrition Treatment Outcome Oncology Head and Neck Neoplasms Quality of Life Female medicine.symptom business Body mass index Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Europe PubMed Central |
| ISSN: | 0862-495X |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Malnutrition in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients decreases survival, quality of life (QOL) and oncological outcomes. The aim of the prospective three-year study was to compare QOL, clinical symptoms and variables (complications, survival and mortality rates in HNC patients). PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 726 patients aged 55 to 72 years with treatable HNC were included from January 2004 to December 2009; these patients were randomized to either group with PEG and enteral nutrition and nonPEG group with nutritional counselling according to nutritional care. We used EORTC questionnaires QOL C-30 and Head and neck module (HN-35) for measuring of QOL. The following variables due to expectable influence on QOL (demographic data, oncological data, nutritional screening, Clinical symptom score, Karnofsky performance status score, Charlson comorbidity index) were included. Monitoring was done five times in three years. RESULTS In the first six months, we found decrease of weight and body mass index (BMI). After this critical time point and finish of oncological treatment, a marked difference in the development of patients treated with PEG. Negative factors influencing patients survival, QOL, clinical status were males aged > 63 years, hypopharyngeal cancer (stage III- IV), smoking, weight loss > 10%, BMI < 21 and disallowance of PEG. CONCLUSIONS QOL is an essential factor for cancer patients. Our study showed that nutritional intervention with early enteral nutrition may improve QOL and survival in HNC patients. The PEG group better tolerated oncological treatment, had lower incidence of complications, shorter time to re-entry of permanent increase in weight, lower rate of rehospitalization and its shorter length. We found QOL questionnaires to be very important for better understanding and communication and a key instrument for improving solution of patients difficulties during their therapy in multidisciplinary approach. |
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