Onkologie. 2022:16(4):184-188 | DOI: 10.36290/xon.2022.035
Supportive Care for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer during Radiotherapy
- Ústav radiační onkologie 1. LF UK a Fakultní nemocnice Bulovka, Praha
Supportive care plays an important role in cancer therapy. Good supportive care helps to control toxicity, maintain or improve quality of life and lenghten overall survival. Supportive care includes anagotherapy, therapy of nauzea, vomitus diarhoea, infectious complications, therapy of hematotoxicity, dyspnoea, fatigue and in radiotherapy of haed and neck cancers also therapy of skin toxicity and oral mucositis. Nutritional care is very important part of supportive care, because malnutrition is an independent prognostic and predictive factor. The artice concludes recomendation not only of two working groups of Czech oncology society - for supportive care in oncology and for nutritional care in oncology.
Keywords: supportive care, oral mucositis, skin toxicity, malnutrition, nutritional intervention.
Accepted: August 22, 2022; Published: August 24, 2022 Show citation
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