## Abstract ## Background The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of continued oral intake and duration of gastrostomy tube placement on posttreatment nutritional outcomes in patients being irradiated for head and neck cancer. ## Methods Factors associated with continued oral intake
Tumor persistence as a predictor of outcome after radiation therapy of head and neck cancers
โ Scribed by Sidney Sobel; Philip Rubin; Bowen Keller; Colin Poulter
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 803 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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