The association between nutrition impact symptoms, nutritional risk, and risk of reduced overall survival in patients with head and neck cancer. A retrospective study.

Background & Aims: To examine which nutritional impact symptoms (NIS) were most prevalent at the initial state of treatment in outpatients with head and neck cancer (HNC). Secondly, to examine whether there is a potential relation between risk of reduced overall survival to NIS or nutritional risk.

Methods: Retrospective data collection from outpatients with HNC undergoing radiotherapy and/or systemic therapy.

The effect of geriatric intervention in frail older patients receiving chemotherapy for colorectal cancer: a randomised trial (GERICO).

Background: Older patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) experience chemotherapy dose reductions or discontinuation. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) predicts survival and chemotherapy completion in patients with cancer, but the benefit of geriatric interventions remains unexplored.

Methods: The GERICO study is a randomised Phase 3 trial including patients ≥70 years receiving adjuvant or first-line palliative chemotherapy for CRC.