Impact of taste and smell training on taste disorders during chemotherapy - TASTE trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Two-thirds of cancer patients report taste disorders during and after chemotherapy. Taste disorders impact on nutritional status which is highly relevant for treatment efficacy and overall prognosis. Improvement of taste disorder is of particular importance for cancer patients' outcomes, thus the TASTE trial was conducted to improve taste disorders with a taste and smell training.

Methods

In this trial, patients undergoing chemotherapy were screened for taste disorders. Subsequently, patients were allocated based on the detection of taste disorders (≤8 taste strips points) to an intervention group with a taste and smell training at baseline and week 3-5 or were only followed up, if no taste disorder was detected (≥9 taste strips points) (non-intervention group). At b

SUBMITTER: von Grundherr J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6526926 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature