A Retrospective Study of G-Tube Use in Japanese Patients Treated with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy for Hypopharyngeal Cancer.

A Retrospective Study of G-Tube Use in Japanese Patients Treated with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy for Hypopharyngeal Cancer.

OBJECTIVE:Late toxicity after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), such as dysphagia, in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck has received a good deal of attention recently. The gastrostomy tube (G-tube) dependence rate 1 year after CCRT was reported to be 16.7-42.9% in Western...

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Main Authors: Akihiro Homma, Hiromitsu Hatakeyama, Takatsugu Mizumachi, Satoshi Kano, Tomohiro Sakashita, Rinnosuke Kuramoto, Yuji Nakamaru, Rikiya Onimaru, Kazuhiko Tsuchiya, Daisuke Yoshida, Koichi Yasuda, Hiroki Shirato, Satoshi Fukuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4996531?pdf=render

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