Sarbani Ghosh Laskar, Shwetabh Sinha, Meetakshi Gupta, Shreyasee Karmakar, Meenakshi Nivedha J, Sadhana Kannan, Ashwini Budrukkar, Monali Swain, Anuj Kumar, Tejpal Gupta, Vedang Murthy, Devendra Chaukar, Prathamesh Pai, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Gouri Pantvaidya, Deepa Nair, Sudhir Nair, Shivakumar Thiagarajan, Anuja Deshmukh, Vanita Noronha, Vijay Patil, Amit Joshi, Kumar Prabhash, Jai Prakash Agarwal
BACKGROUND: To assess the efficacy of prophylactic versus reactive feeding strategy in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) patients receiving adjuvant radiation therapy (RT). METHODS: This was a post hoc analysis of patients of OCSCC enrolled in a randomized trial comparing three adjuvant strategies. In this trial, till 2010, a prophylactic feeding approach was followed for all patients. Since January 2011, a reactive feeding approach was followed. RESULTS: Two hundred and sixty-eight in each cohort (total n = 526) were eligible for analysis after propensity score matching...
March 13, 2023: Head & Neck