3. material and methods
The research instrument collected data from a medical record review. The data consisted of 3 part:
1.Patient data including sex, age,nationality,preferential treatment of patient,tumor site ,type and stage of cancer, concomitant disease,smoking history,alcohol-drinking history ,and concurrent chemotherapy.
2. Radiation therapy data comprised the number of times of postponed radiotherapy, radiotherapy dose adjustment,and radiation discontinuation before completing radiation.
3. Nutritional status data, before and after and receiving nutrition care-self-oral intake and ETF and/or TPN, consisted of body weight, body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct), white blood cell count (WBC count) , platelet count.