Journal of Cancer Treatment and Research

Special Issue

Head & Neck Oncology: Relationship Between the Degree of Dysphagia and Nutritional Status in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

  • Submission Deadline: Mar. 30, 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Luisa García Rojas Vázquez
About This Special Issue
Dysphagia is a swallowing impairment where structures of the upper gastrointestinal tract and the lower esophageal sphincter involved and is one of the most common symptoms in patients with head and neck cancer (CCC). Besides the location and stage of the disease increases the chances that these patients present malnutrition, negatively impacting the prognosis of CCC.

Objectives:

1. Determine whether the degree of dysphagia is related to nutritional status in patients with head and neck cancer.
2. Find the relationship between nutritional status and stage of the cancer of head and neck

Scope: Nutriologist, oncologist, and nurses
Lead Guest Editor
  • Luisa García Rojas Vázquez

    Clinical and Experimental Diabetes Reseach Laboratory, Postgraduate Division, Faculty of Medical and Biological Sciences, Michoacan University of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico

Guest Editors
  • Shuli Liu

    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial–Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, China

  • Trujano Ramos Luis Alfredo

    Master Clinical Nutrition, Head of Clinical Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy, Women's Hospital, Morelia, Mexico