Abstract

To provide strategies to manage nutrition in patients with head and neck cancer. Empirical articles, reviews, books, and anecdotal evidence. Major nutrition issues include sore mouth/throat, difficulty swallowing, taste changes, dry mouth/thick saliva, constipation, nausea/vomiting, and decreased appetite. Nurses are one of the main providers for patients with head and neck cancer and may be the first to recognize a nutritional issue. The oncology dietitian and nurse work closely together to manage the nutritional care of the patient.

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