Table 3.
Long term and latent effects of head and neck cancer treatment
| Side effect | Treatment type
|
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemotherapy | Radiation | Surgery | |
|
| |||
| General | |||
| Fatigue | X | X | |
| Pain | X | ||
| Weakness | X | X | |
|
| |||
| Musculoskeletal | |||
| Cervical dystonia | X | X | |
| Lymphedema | X | X | |
| Shoulder dysfunction | X | X | |
|
| |||
| Neurologic | |||
| Cognitive dysfunction | X | ||
| Cervical radiculopathy | X | X | X |
| Neuropathy | X | X | |
|
| |||
| Oropharyngeal | |||
| Dental caries | X | ||
| Dysarthria | X | X | |
| Dysphagia/esophageal stricture | X | X | |
| Reflux disease | X | ||
| Taste disturbance | X | ||
| Trismus | X | X | |
| Xerostomia | X | X | |
|
| |||
| Psychosocial (anxiety, distress, depression) | X | X | X |
|
| |||
| Pulmonary (pulmonary fibrosis) | X | X | |