Improvement in swallowing problems with early exercises in head and neck cancer patients.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- head and neck cancer
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2012/11/003115
- Lead Sponsor
- Devki Devi Foundation
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 50
Inclusion Criteria
1.Patients 19 to 85 years of age, either sex.
2.Head & Neck sites (Nasopharynx, Oral Cavity, Oropharynx, Hypopharynx, Larynx)
3.Confirmed histopathological diagnosis
4.Must undergo pre-treatment evaluation of tumor extent and tumor measurement.
5.Nutritional and general physical condition must be considered compatible with treatment
6.No prior radiotherapy to the head and neck; no previous chemotherapy
7.No prophylactic use of amifostine or pilocarpine
8.No other malignancy in the rest of the body
9.No evidence of distant metastasis
10.No major medical or psychiatric illness
1.Patients having tracheostomy tube
2.Second malignancy of head and neck region
3.Previously radiated patients
4.Psychiatric and neurological conditions involving brain and cervical spine
5.Unable to comprehend the function and use of the rehabilitation exercises
6.Patient not agreeing for follow up.
7.Swallowing problem other than due to malignancy.
8.Age > 65 and < 18 Years
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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