The impact of enteral feeding route on patient-reported long term swallowing outcome after chemoradiation for head and neck cancer

Prospective evidence suggests that the selection of feeding tube during chemoradiation (CRT) indirectly affects swallowing outcome. This study explores the patients' perspective on long-term swallowing ability comparing these two feeding routes. Two groups, receiving nutritional supplementation via a prophylactic gastrostomy tube (group G) and by the oral route or via a nasogastric tube (group NG) during CRT, disease-free at ≥24 months following...