A study from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) has found that head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation as part of their treatment were less likely to suffer unwanted side effects such as worsening of diet, need for a feeding tube, or narrowing of the throat passage if they complied with a set of prescribed swallowing exercises called a swallow preservation protocol (SPP) during therapy. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Duarte VM, et al. Swallow Preservation Exercises during Chemoradiation Therapy Maintains Swallow Function. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2013 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23981953
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