A cross-sectional retrospective and prospective service evaluation of head and neck cancer patients’ swallowing and quality of life concerns: are we doing enough?
Sinead Rothrie, Grainne Brady, Justin Roe · 2026
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Swallowing trouble after head and neck cancer treatment may be getting missed in routine follow-up, argue Sinead Rothrie, Grainne Brady, and Justin Roe in a 2026 service evaluation. Surveillance visits usually hunt for returning cancer, while lasting problems with eating, drinking, and daily life receive far less attention in their tertiary center.
Notes from 52 patients showed documented checks for swallowing harm in only a small share of cases, and just one referral to speech and language therapy followed. A separate group of 74 patients screened with a concerns inventory found that most reported at least one unmet quality-of-life need. The authors press clinics to ask about swallowing and wider concerns directly, rather than waiting for patients to raise them.
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| CREATOR | Sinead Rothrie, Grainne Brady, Justin Roe |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20846 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |