New ASPEN Guidelines Address Malnutrition Risk in HNC

By Susan KreimerThe American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) has released new nutrition guidelines for adult patients with head and neck cancer aimed at addressing the many challenges of patient management.The multidisciplinary recommendations “help guide nutrition care across the continuum of treatment—surgery, radiation, chemo, combinations—and emphasize early identification and proactive management of malnutrition,” Whitney Lewis, PharmD, BCOP, who