title: [Relationship between acute radiotoxicity and nutritional status of patients with head and neck cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between nutritional status and acute radiotoxicity of patients with head and neck cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nutritional status and acute radiotoxicities of 130 head and neck cancer patients were prospectively surveyed during the 4th week of radiotherapy. Relationships between nutritional status and acute radiotoxicities were analyzed by canonical correlation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first canonical correlation coefficient was 0.653, statistically significant, which showed that some negative relationships were found between nutritional status (such as serum prealbumin, transferring, lymphocytes, lymphocyte percentage) and acute radiotoxicities (such as dry mouth, throat/sore throat, fatigue, radiation dermatitis) of head and neck cancer patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  When the detection value of serum prealbumin, transferrin, lymphocytes, lymphocyte percentage was below the normal, the appropriate nutritional support would be given to improve immunity and to relieve the acute radiotoxicitoes.
authors.affiliation: Fujian Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fuzhou 350001, China. yunping1448@sina.com
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Rongtao
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Kuicheng
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jinsheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Weijian
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xiaonan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000378:metabolism*; D014168:Transferrin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin; D014168:Transferrin