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Thesis
Evaluation of Treatment Modalities in Radiotherapy Induced Esophagitis
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
04/30/1997
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3986
Abstract
Patients who have a diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that necessitates the use of ionizing radiation to the chest and mediastinum unavoidably receive treatment to normal esophageal tissues. Damage to otherwise healthy tissue results as the esophageal mucosa lay within treatment fields. Repeated treatments over the course of prescribed radiation treatments results in radiotherapy induced esophagitis. The purpose of this project is to contrast the efficacy of two currently used treatment modalities for the treatment of radiotherapy induced esophagitis. Each study subject will be assigned through a random drawing, either Group A, Reynold's Solution, or Group B, sucralfate and fluconazole. Using a repeated measures design, study patients will be asked to provide subjective information regarding the symptoms as they relate to swallowing difficulty (dysphagia) and pain with swallowing (odynophagia). Patients will be asked to provide six (6) recordings of swallowing experiences they have while receiving their prescribed radiotherapy and study medications.
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- Title
- Evaluation of Treatment Modalities in Radiotherapy Induced Esophagitis
- Creators
- Gale Taylor
- Contributors
- Margaret Auld Bruya (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590533401842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis