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Buried Bumper Syndrome: a rare complication during radical chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer
  1. Rachel Pei Jing Teo1,
  2. Akash Maniam2,
  3. Ian Boon3 and
  4. Cheng S Boon4
  1. 1Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
  2. 2Medical Oncology, Eastern Regional Health Authority, Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago
  3. 3Leeds Cancer Research UK Centre, Leeds, UK
  4. 4Oncology Department, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rachel Pei Jing Teo; teopeijing{at}yahoo.com

Abstract

Patients undergoing radical treatment particularly chemoradiotherapy for cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract frequently experience progressive deterioration in swallow during and immediately after treatment. It is important to identify patients at high risk of compromised feeding early, following diagnosis, so that alternate feeding routes, such as percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs), can be promptly and prophylactically instituted, in keeping with the UK Head and Neck Cancer Guidelines (2016).

  • cancer intervention
  • oncology

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-238203

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    • Contributors RPJT contributes to writing up the cases and literature review, obtaining patient’s consent and retrieving images from patient’s record. AM contributes to write up of the cases. IB contributes to the review of the cases and critical appraisal prior to final submission. CSB contributes to the final review prior to manuscript submission.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.