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Nutrition and Head and Neck Cancer

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This chapter supplies insight into nutrition in the consideration of its role in multiple aspects of Head and Neck Cancer. While generally promoted in the context of cancer prevention, there are nutritional and dietary aspects to cancer causation, diagnosis, therapy and survivorship. There is clearly a bidirectional relationship where the nutritional status of a patient contributes to their cancer risk and response as well as the occurrence of a Head and Neck Cancer contributes to the likelihood of poor nutritional status of a patient. Hence, nutritional interventions are warranted across the “life cycle” of Head and Neck Cancer. The reader will gain knowledge on the existing nutritional guidelines and the state of the science supporting the associations of nutrition and cancer highlighting important considerations specific to Head and Neck Cancer.

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Abbreviations

ACS:

American Cancer Society

AICR:

American Institute for Cancer Research

AND:

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly – American Dietetic Association)

BIA:

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis

EN:

Enteral Nutrition

HNC:

Head and Neck Cancer

MNA:

Mini-Nutritional Assessment

MST:

Malnutrition Screening Tool

MUST:

Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool

NA:

Nutritional Assessment

NCI:

National Cancer Institute (in NIH – United States National Institutes of Health)

NRI:

Nutritional Risk Indicator

NRS-2002:

Nutritional Risk Screening-2002

NS:

Nutritional Support

NST:

Nutrition Screening Tool

NT:

Nutritional Therapy

PEG:

Precutaneous endoscopically guided gastrostomy

PG-SGA:

Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment

PN:

Parenteral Nutrition

PNI:

Prognostic Nutritional Index

QOL:

Quality of Life

SGA:

Subjective Global Assessment

TPN:

Total Parenteral Nutrition

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    Manju Sarangapani, Ami Patel & Linda M. Kaste

  2. Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Institute for Health Research and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

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Sarangapani, M., Patel, A., Kaste, L.M., Dolecek, T.A. (2013). Nutrition and Head and Neck Cancer. In: Radosevich, J. (eds) Head & Neck Cancer: Current Perspectives, Advances, and Challenges. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5827-8_15

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