Quality Assessment in Supportive Care in Head and Neck Cancer

Copyright © 2019 Bonomo, Paderno, Mattavelli, Zenda, Cavalieri and Bossi..

Quality assessment is a key issue in every clinical intervention, to be periodically performed so to measure the adherence to standard and to possibly implement strategies to improve its performance. This topic is rarely discussed for what concerns supportive care; however, it is necessary to verify the quality of the supportive measures; "supportive care makes excellent cancer care possible," as stated by the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). In this regard, the quality of supportive care in head and neck cancer patients is a crucial topic, both to allow administration of treatments according to planned dose intensity or surgical indications and to maintain or improve patients' quality of life. This paper aims to provide insight on state of the art supportive care and its future developments for locally advanced and recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer, with a focus on quality assessment in relation to surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in oncology - 9(2019) vom: 16., Seite 926

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bonomo, Pierluigi [VerfasserIn]
Paderno, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Mattavelli, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Zenda, Sadamoto [VerfasserIn]
Cavalieri, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Bossi, Paolo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chemotherapy
Head and neck cancer
Journal Article
Multimodal treatment
Quality assessment
Radiotherapy
Review
Supportive care
Surgery

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fonc.2019.00926

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM30226812X