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 Wester...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Homma, Akihiro, Hatakeyama, Hiromitsu, Mizumachi, Takatsugu, Kano, Satoshi, Sakashita, Tomohiro, Kuramoto, Rinnosuke, Nakamaru, Yuji, Onimaru, Rikiya, Tsuchiya, Kazuhiko, Yoshida, Daisuke, Yasuda, Koichi, Shirato, Hiroki, Fukuda, Satoshi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996531/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27556279
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161734
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