Open AccessAn Interdisciplinary Nutrition Support Team Improves Clinical and Hospitalized Outcomes of Esophageal Cancer Patients with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy
Author(s) -
Cong Ma,
Shuluan Li,
Guowei Cheng,
Jinying Liu,
Chunhua Song,
Yao Deng,
Wei-Hu Shang,
Di Yang,
Xuehui Li,
Weiwei Liu,
Shi-Yan Lu,
Yu Lei
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chinese medical journal/chinese medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2542-5641
pISSN - 0366-6999
DOI - 10.4103/0366-6999.168963
Subject(s) - medicine , esophageal cancer , radiation therapy , chemoradiotherapy , incidence (geometry) , parenteral nutrition , complication , mucositis , malnutrition , dysphagia , cancer , gastroenterology , surgery , physics , optics
The prevalence of malnutrition is very high in patients with cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not a nutrition support team (NST) could benefit esophageal cancer patients undergoing chemoradiotherapy (CRT).