Presence and duration of feeding tube in a 5-year cohort of patients with head and neck cancer treated with curative intensity-modulated radiation therapy.

At an institution offering prophylactic G-tube for patients with advanced HNC, no differences were found in yearly G-tube use 1-5 years post-IMRT. Across all patients, median post-IMRT days with G-tube was 63 day but those with hypopharyngeal tumors registered the most days.