Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy improves survival and nutritional outcomes in patients with head and neck cancer.

ABSTRACT: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement is used for maintaining nutritional status. We aimed to compare overall survival, body weight, and albumin changes between PEG and non-PEG groups. This retrospective cohort study was conducted at Songklanagarind Hospital, Southern Thailand, which included patients (aged ≥ 18 years) with head and neck cancer (HNC) diagnosed between 2007 and 2022. We used the nearest neighbor search to conduct the propensity score matching (PSM) in a 1:1 ratio. Of the 5024 eligible patients, 1604 (31.9%) underwent PEG. After PSM for age, sex, body mass index, type of HNC, time of diagnosis, stage, hemoglobin, albumin and total lymphocyte count, the final PEG and non-PEG groups each included 1,361 patients. The most common cancer type was stage 4 nasopharyng

SUBMITTER: Assawasuwannakit S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12639107 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature