… dysphagia in patients with head and neck cancer and to examine whether the severity of
dysphagia was associated with survival. … used to merge existing cancer registry and billing data …

… In head and neck cancer patients prior to treatment, dysphagia noted by patients is more …
The authors hypothesized that patient-reported dysphagia impacts multiple domains of …

… of dysphagia in patients with head and neck cancer. Head Neck. 2002 Jun;24(6): 555-65. …
for disease-specific survival in patients with head and neck cancer receiving radiotherapy. Br J …

… cancers as well as 10,570 laryngeal cancers in the year 2017. Simultaneously, survival rates
in head and neck cancers … 5-year survival for head and neck cancers increasing from 52.7…

… Previous studies have suggested that patient-reported dysphagia predicts survival, but …
a dysphagia-specific QOL or VFSS findings could predict recurrence and survival outcomes …

… Survival rate without dysphagia was higher for gastric anastomosis (89%) than for jejunal
grafts (76%). Swallowing is better with gastric transposition because of the low rate of fistula …

… severity cannot be reached after the end of treatment and that it represents an independent
risk factor for lower survival rates [5]. In the near future, a greater proportion of patients will …

… To develop a European White Paper document on oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in head
and neck cancer (HNC). There are wide variations in the management of OD associated with …

… survival and are diagnosed at a younger age than tobacco-related oropharyngeal cancers.5,
18 HPV status was not available for cases in this study, but half of the late dysphagia …

… The impact of early dysphagia should not be underestimated. By considering swallowing
impairment at the primary therapy patients can profit concerning survival and comorbidity. …