Managing the late effects of chemoradiation on swallowing: bolstering the beginning, minding the middle, and cocreating the end.

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Late dysphagia has a profound impact on quality of life in patients treated with chemoradiation therapy for advanced head and neck cancer and the number of survivors is growing. Traditional treatment methods are not uniformly successful in reducing the swallow impairment in these patients.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

Title: Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1531-6998

ISSN (Print): 1068-9508

Publication date (Electronic): Jun 2018

Volume: 26

Issue: 3

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[1 ] Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

[2 ] Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Odette Cancer Centre, Speech-Language Pathology, Oncology Program.

[3 ] Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) - Practice-Based Research.

[4 ] Graduate Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0000000000000455

PubMed ID: 29708903

SO-VID: 310aa72b-c2fa-46dc-bb83-a4dffa50a149

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