1. Importance of Nutritional Status in Treatment Response of Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.
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Sanda, Cristina, Radu, Irina, Popescu, Bogdan, Barbu, Maria Alexandra, Sarafoleanu, Codrut, and Nitipir, Cornelia
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NASOPHARYNX cancer , *CANCER treatment - Abstract
Introduction: Usually patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma have weight loss due to the tumor itself and to the radiochemotherapy. Weight loss increases the incidence of complications during the treatment, influences the performance status and the prognostic of the disease. The aim of this retrospective study is toinvestigate the influence of BMI, age, histological type of NPC and stage of disease on the prognostic of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Methods: We analyzed 27 patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, admitted in Medical Oncology Clinic of Elias University Emergency Hospital between2010-2015. All patients undergo radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy and gene targeted therapy. We calculated BMI before the beginning of the treatment. Results: We remarked that normal and overweight patients had the best results at 3 years after the treatment. 78% of patients with complete response post radio-chemotherapy had complete remission at 3 years after finishing treatment. Underweight patients had the worse results and poor prognostic due to higher rates of tumor remnants or local-regional recurrence Conclusions: Nutritional status has an important impact over the response rate and tolerance of the treatment, performance status and quality of life. Being associated with a poor prognostic, cachexia must be treated properly, in order to improve patient's physical and functional status, quality of life and overall survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018