PMID: 11335904May 4, 2001Paper

Enteral nutrition during the treatment of head and neck carcinoma: is a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube preferable to a nasogastric tube?

Cancer
T M MekhailP Lavertu

Abstract

Multimodality treatments for patients with squamous cell head and neck carcinoma often produce significant mucositis and dysphagia, mandating enteral nutritional support. Patient preference has resulted in the increasing use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes rather than nasogastric (NG) tubes. Anecdotal observations of prolonged PEG dependence and of a need for pharyngoesophageal dilatation in PEG patients prompted a retrospective review of the use of both types of feeding tubes. Patients who were treated on clinical trials of radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for squamous cell head and neck carcinoma between 1989 and 1997 were reviewed retrospectively. Data were gathered regarding demographics, primary tumor site, T and N classifications, and the need for feeding tube placement. In patients requiring feeding tubes, the type and duration of the feeding tube, the need for tracheostomy, the need for pharyngoesophageal dilatation, and the degree of mucositis and dysphagia at baseline and at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months after beginning treatment were recorded. Comparisons were then made between the NG and the PEG groups. Ninety-one feeding tubes were placed in 158 patients over the 8-year interval. A ...Continue Reading

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