Table 1.
Summary of patient characteristics
| Characteristic | n = 29 |
|---|---|
| Age | |
| Mean (years) | 63.5 |
| Range (years) | 48 to 90 |
| Sex | |
| M | 24 |
| F | 5 |
| Site of disease | |
| Nasopharynx | 1 |
| Oropharynx | 20 |
| Larynx | 8 |
| Time of radiotherapy [32] | |
| Ongoing or < 90 days after completion of radiotherapy | 20 |
| > 90 days after completion of radiotherapy | 9 |
| Chemotherapy | |
| Ongoing chemotherapy | 9 |
| Completion of chemotherapy | 7 |
| No chemotherapy | 13 |
| Nutrition | |
| Oral | 16 |
| Partial nonoral | 3 |
| Complete nonoral | 10 |
| Feeding tube | |
| Nasogastric tube | 4 |
| Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy | 9 |
| Tracheostomy | 16 |
Data are numbers of subjects