Impact of choice of feeding tubes on long-term swallow function following chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal carcinoma.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite concern regarding the use of a prophylactic gastrostomy in prior studies, the approaches of using a prophylactic gastrostomy or an NG tube as required to support patients during/after chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal carcinoma were associated with similar long-term swallow outcomes.
PMID: 31032694 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Oncologica - April 28, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Prestwich RJD, Murray LJ, Williams GF, Tease E, Taylor L, George C, Cardale K, Dyker KE, Murray P, Sen M, Ramasamy S Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research