{"title":"Association of age and symptom burden in patients with head and neck cancer.","authors":"Stewart M Bond, Mary S Dietrich, Barbara A Murphy","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with head and neck cancer experience significant treatment-related symptoms. Aging may predispose older patients to greater risk. We examined the association of age with symptom burden. Older patients may experience more symptom burden with swallowing, voice/speech, and nutrition. Nurses need to be especially aware of and monitor for these problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":79417,"journal":{"name":"ORL-head and neck nursing : official journal of the Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ORL-head and neck nursing : official journal of the Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Patients with head and neck cancer experience significant treatment-related symptoms. Aging may predispose older patients to greater risk. We examined the association of age with symptom burden. Older patients may experience more symptom burden with swallowing, voice/speech, and nutrition. Nurses need to be especially aware of and monitor for these problems.