Blenderized food tube feeding in patients with head and neck cancer.

Background: Patients with headand neck cancer (HNC) are at high risk for malnutrition before and during chemoradiation treatment. Many will also require tube feeding to address declines in energy intake, weight, and quality of life (QOL) caused by the impact of treatment on gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. Blenderized tube feeding (BTF) may ameliorate these adverse conditions.

Marginal zone mucosa associated lymphoid tissue diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

Context: Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) primarily involving the orbit, is relatively uncommon. Rarely two pathologically different NHL cell types have been found to be coexistent.

Case Report: We report a case of orbital lymphoma in a 62-year-old male with rare histopathological findings secondary to transformation of once cell type into another.

Utilization of darbepoetin alfa and epoetin alfa for chemotherapy-induced anemia.

Purpose: The patterns of use and effectiveness of therapy with darbepoetin alfa and epoetin alfa for chemotherapy-induced anemia (CIA) in hospital outpatient and community settings were evaluated.

Methods: Data were collected from medical charts at 65 oncology clinics in hospital outpatient and community settings for consecutive patients who received the first dose of either darbepoetin alfa or epoetin alfa between August 1, 2002, and February 15, 2003, and were to have had 12 weeks of follow-up data.

Results: Data from the charts of 3123 patients were abstracted.