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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Nutr.
Sec. Clinical Nutrition
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1481073

Improved health outcomes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients three years after treatment by the AI-assisted home enteral nutrition management

Provisionally accepted
Liu Jia Liu Jia 1Xiuying Wang Xiuying Wang 2Xu Ye Xu Ye 3Danna Chen Danna Chen 1*
  • 1 Changsha Medical University, Changsha, China
  • 2 First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
  • 3 Hunan Cancer Hospital, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

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    Objectives: Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) are prone to malnutrition, which leads to deterioration of health. This study is to clarify the effect of Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted home enteral nutrition (HEN) management mode on the health status of patients with stage III to stage IV NPC after three years of treatment, and to provide a new strategy for improving the quality of life of patients. Methods: Patients with stage Ⅲ I NPC were determined whether to accept AI-assisted HEN management according to voluntary principle. After 3 years of management, the survival rate, distant metastasis rate and local recurrence rate were counted, and the basic body quality, laboratory detection, eating difficulty score, mental health score and other examinations were performed on the surviving patients to evaluate the overall health status. Results: The three-year survival rate of patients with NPC who received AI-assisted HEN management after treatment was improved. Various tests showed that AI-assisted HEN improved the nutritional intake of patients, had a low positive rate of Epstein-barr virus , reduced adverse reactions such as psychological stress and physical pain, and could improve the quality of life of patients. Conclusion: AI-assisted HEN has a positive auxiliary effect on clinical treatment, which is helpful to promote the recovery of patients with NPC.Clinical trial information: NCT06603909.

    Keywords: nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN), artificial intelligence - AI, Survival Rate, Health state

    Received: 15 Aug 2024; Accepted: 23 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Jia, Wang, Ye and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Danna Chen, Changsha Medical University, Changsha, China

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