China Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ›› 2019, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 473-477.doi: 10.19438/j.cjoms.2019.05.018

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Studies on symptom cluster assessment tools for patients with head and neck cancers

HUANG Yao, YU Lei-lei, YANG Yue-lai, WANG Hui-fen, YUAN Wei-jun, MAO Yue-li   

  1. Department of Oral Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology. Shanghai 200011, China
  • Received:2018-09-21 Online:2019-09-20 Published:2020-03-11

Abstract: Compared with single symptom assessment, symptom clusters assessment is beneficial to comprehensive analysis to find key symptom and relieve symptom burden for patients with head and neck cancers. Because of the speciality of anatomic location and extent of tumor, head and neck cancer patients usually experience serious symptoms. These symptoms have great influence on patients' outcomes. At present, there still has been a lack of domestic study on symptom clusters assessment tool for patients with head and neck cancers. This review summarized the studies on the symptom cluster assessment instrument for patients with head and neck cancers.

Key words: Head and neck cancer, Symptom cluster, Assessment tools

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