ATASOY, BESTE MELEKDANE, FAYSALYILMAZ, YUSUF2022-03-122022-03-1220120937-4477https://hdl.handle.net/11424/230797To investigate the impact of early insertion of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy-tube on nutritional status and completeness of concurrent chemotherapy in locally advanced head and neck cancer patients treated with chemoradiotherapy. Twenty-three patients were enrolled into this prospective study. Gastrostomy-tube was inserted in patients before the initiation of chemoradiotherapy. There was not any significant change in nutritional parameters of patients that used their tube during treatment. Despite the grade 3 mucositis, the planned concurrent chemotherapy could be given in 70% of the patients. However, nine patients had weak compliance and their body weight (P = 0.01) and body mass index (P = 0.01) deteriorated in the first 4 weeks of chemoradiotherapy. The completeness of concurrent chemo-rate was 44% in these patients. Toxicity, requiring aggressive supportive care, may limit the chemotherapy part of curative concomitant chemoradiotherapy. By providing adequate enteral nutrition the insertion of gastrostomy-tube can increase the completeness rate of concurrent chemotherapy.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessChemoradiotherapyEnteral nutritionGastrostomyHead and neck neoplasmsQUALITY-OF-LIFEWEIGHT-LOSSCONCOMITANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPYSTAGE-IIIRADIOTHERAPYPREDICTORSCARCINOMATUBESINTERVENTIONCHEMOTHERAPYarticleWOS:00029865530004110.1007/s00405-010-1477-7214724681434-4726