Role of telemedicine in head neck cancer.
Oral Oncol
; 151: 106746, 2024 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-38460287
ABSTRACT
Chemo-radiotherapy and head and neck cancers are common adverse outcomes that impact patients' quality of life. The increasing cancer incidence and healthcare service shortages necessitate new strategies for optimal treatments and follow-ups. Digitalized healthcare, including digital health, telemedicine, and telemonitoring, is promising. HNC requires multidisciplinary team intervention, including speech language pathology telepractice models. Mobile health-based interventions can help cancer survivors increase physical activity and improve rehabilitation services. Effective self-management skills can improve outcomes. Advancements in communication technologies have led to telecommunication-based interventions incorporating swallowing exercises, education, monitoring, feedback, self-management, and communication. Home-based remote rehabilitation is urgent, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the optimal strategy and effectiveness of remote interventions remain unclear. Telehealth interventions represent a possible novel approach to increase access to care across the cancer continuum, strengthen patients' knowledge and self-management, provide continuity of services, and enable remote monitoring of symptoms and response to treatment. Telehealth patients are typically younger, more likely to be English-speaking, and more likely to be female. These disparities widened slightly after the start of the pandemic but were also present prior to the pandemic.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos de Deglución
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Telemedicina
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Neoplasias de Cabeza y Cuello
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
Oral Oncol
Asunto de la revista:
NEOPLASIAS
Año:
2024
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Article
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Reino Unido