Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...
Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...
Impact of radiotherapy duration on outcomes in patients with esophageal cancer treated with definitive concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy on RTOG trials 8501 and 9405. This is an ASCO Meeting ...
Effect of adding taxane to platin-5-fluorouracil combination on survival in elderly patients with advanced gastric cancer: A retrospective-multicenter study.
In oncological patients with upper gastrointestinal tract tumours, dysphagia and cachexy necessitate gastrostomy or jejunostomy as the only options of enteral access for long-term feeding. In this ...
Patients with jejunostomy after extensive small-bowel resection have major problems with water, sodium and magnesium depletion. They rapidly become dehydrated if appropriate treatment is not given.
Why this is important:- People who have had surgery for oesophago-gastric cancer have nutritional difficulties as a result of problems eating, ongoing symptoms, and side-effects related to the surgery ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results