Authors
Georgios Antasouras, Sousana K Papadopoulou, Maria Tolia, Aimilia-Lynn Pandi, Maria Spanoudaki, Nikolaos Tsoukalas, Gerasimos Tsourouflis, Evmorfia Psara, Maria Mentzelou, Constantinos Giaginis
Publication date
2023/10/2
Source
Medical Sciences
Volume
11
Issue
4
Pages
64
Publisher
MDPI
Description
Background
Malnutrition in esophageal and pharyngeal cancer patients constitutes a common and serious concern, which significantly reduces patients’ prognoses. Cancers of the esophagus and the pharynx can considerably impair feeding in patients, resulting in severe undernutrition. This is a scoping review that intends to critically analyze the most well-designed clinical studies investigating the potential beneficial impact of diverse nutritional assessment tools on the prognosis of patients with esophageal and pharyngeal cancers.
Methods
The most accurate and remarkable scientific databases were comprehensively explored utilizing relative keywords to detect clinical studies that investigate whether nutritional status may affect disease prognosis.
Results
Several assessment tools have evaluated and highlighted the potential beneficial impact of nutritional status on disease progression and patients’ prognosis in both esophageal and pharyngeal cancers. Regarding esophageal cancer, CONUT, PNI, PG-SGA, and NRS-2002 are more commonly used, while albumin is also frequently evaluated. Regarding pharyngeal cancers, fewer studies are currently available. PNI has been evaluated, and its significance as a factor for shorter survival’ times has been highlighted. The Comprehensive Nutritional Index has also been evaluated with positive results, as well as NRS 2002, GPS, and body-weight status. However, there is currently a lack of studies with an adequate number of women with cancer. An international literature gap was identified concerning follow-up studies with adequate methodology.
Conclusions
Nutritional status may …
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