Impact of early nutrition counseling in head and neck cancer patients with normal nutritional status
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Impact of early nutrition counseling in head and neck cancer patients with normal nutritional status Ya-Wen Ho 1,2 & Kun-Yun Yeh 3 & Shun-Wen Hsueh 3 & Chia-Yen Hung 1,4 & Chang-Hsien Lu 5 & Ngan-Ming Tsang 6 & Hung-Ming Wang 1 & Yu-Shin Hung 1 & Wen-Chi Chou 1 Received: 24 July 2020 / Accepted: 24 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Background Nutritional counseling is frequently overlooked in cancer patients with normal nutritional status. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of nutritional counseling in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients with normal nutritional status prior to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). Methods A total of 243 patients with pretreatment normal nutritional status and locally advanced HNC receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) at three medical centers were enrolled. All patients were retrospectively allocated into the early (≤ 2 weeks, n = 105, 43.2%), late (> 2 weeks, n = 102, 42.0%), and no nutritional counseling groups (n = 36, 14.8%) according to the time interval between the date of CCRT initiation and the first date of nutritional counseling for comparison. Results The 1-year overall survival rates were 95.0%, 87.5%, and 81.3% in the early, late, and no nutritional counseling groups (p = 0.035), respectively. The median body weight changes at end of CCRT were − 4.8% (range, − 13.3 to 8.7%), − 5.6% (range, − 21.9 to 5.6%), and − 8.6% (range, − 20.3 to 2.4%) in patients in the early, late, and no nutritional counseling groups, respectively. The early termination of chemotherapy rates and the incompletion rates of planned radiotherapy were 1.9% and 1.9%, 2.9%, and 2.0%, 13.9%, and 19.4% in patients in the early, late, and no nutritional counseling groups, respectively. Conclusions Our findings strongly suggest that while some HNC patients may have pretreatment normal nutritional status, early nutritional counseling is nevertheless essential for the improvement of treatment tolerance and survival outcome. Keywords Chemoradiotherapy . Head and neck cancer . Nutritional counseling . Treatment interruption
Introduction
* Wen-Chi Chou [email protected] 1
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University, No. 5, Fu-Hsing Street, Kwei-Shan Shiang, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Department of Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan
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Division of Hema-oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Department of Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Chiayi, Chiayi, Taiwan
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Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Malnutrition is one of the most common side effects of cancer, accounting for a 30–80% prevalence rate among patients diagnosed with cancer [1–4]. Multiple factors involved in cancer patients’ malnutrition are mainly caused by hyper
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