oropharynx cancer or hypopharynx cancer head and neck cancer, opharynx cancer, hypopharynx cancer
Conditions
Interventions
tongue pressure mesurement
Swallowing rehabilitation
Sponsors
Uemura Hirokazu
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients with oropharynx or hypopharynx cancer (regardless of tissue system) who undergo chemoradiation treatment or radiation treatment as the first curative treatment. But, patients who have undergone chemotherapy prior to chemoradiation treatment or radiation treatment are included. 2. Age: 18 to 85 years old 3. Performance Status (ECOG) is 0 or 1 (within one month prior to obtaining consent) 4. Patients with written consent for participation of this clinical study from the patient or its representative
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients whose don't recognize measurer's instructions (e.g. patients with dementia, aphasia, aphasia, higher brain dysfunction, intellectually disabled, etc.) 2. Patients who can't grip the tongue pressure probe with the front teeth (e.g. patients who are toothless jaws and are not wearing dentures) 3. Patients who can't crush the tongue pressure probe (e.., patients who cannot move the tongue at all) 4. Patients with dysphagia du to the pretreatment for head and neck cancer 5. Patients with significant decrease in swallowing function due to a history of central diseases, etc. 6. Other patients who are judged inadequate to this research by the principal (sub) investigator
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The amount of change in the maximum tongue pressure value before radiation treatment and 3 months after the end of treatment. Before treatment is defined as the time from obtaining informed consent to the start of radiation treatment. After treatment is at the time 3 months plus and minus 14 days after the end of radiation treatment. The maximum tongue pressure value is the maximum value in the 3 times mesurement. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The amount of change in the maximum tongue pressure value from 1 month after the start of radiation treatment and 0, 1, or 6 months after the end of treatment. 2. Evaluation by swallowing endoscopy at each point (Hyodo score) 3. Swallowing disorder findings by swallowing imaging examination at each point | — |
Contacts
Public ContactHirokazu Uemura
Nara Medical University Hospital
Outcome results
None listed