dr. Margot Baudelet (PhD)
CRIG member
Speech and Language pathologist at Ghent University Hospital. Doctor in Health Sciences.
Principal investigators : Prof. Ingeborg Dhooge (MD) and dr. Katja Batens (MD)
Research focus
At the Ghent University Hospital, Margot works, among others, with head and neck cancer patients who develop swallowing problems as a result of their treatment for the head and neck cancer. The focus of this work is both the prevention of swallowing problems in patients undergoing radiotherapy and the treatment of (chronic) swallowing problems in patients after treatment ((chemo)radiotherapy or surgery).
Key publications
- Prophylactic Swallowing Therapy During Head-and-Neck Cancer Radiotherapy: Effect of Service-Delivery Mode and Overall Adherence Level on Swallowing Function and Muscle Strength—the PRESTO Trial. Dysphagia, 1-15. (2023)
- Supportive care among head and neck cancer patients: an initial validation of the Dutch version of the Performance Status Scale for Head and Neck Cancer (D-PSS-HN). International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. (2023)
- Home-based intensive treatment of chronic radiation-associated dysphagia in head and neck cancer survivors (HIT-CRAD trial). Trials, 23(1), 893. (2022)
- Increasing adherence to prophylactic swallowing exercises during head and neck radiotherapy: the multicenter, randomized controlled PRESTO-trial. Dysphagia, 1-10. (2022)
- Supportive care among head and neck cancer patients: validation of the Dutch version of the Oral Mucositis Weekly Questionnaire-Head and Neck Cancer (D-OMWQ-HN). B-ENT, 18(4), 254-261. (2022)
- Effect of tongue‐strengthening exercises on tongue strength and swallowing‐related parameters in chronic radiation‐associated dysphagia. Head & Neck, 42(9), 2298-2307. (2020)
- Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial: prophylactic swallowing exercises in head-and-neck cancer patients treated with (chemo) radiotherapy (PRESTO trial). Trials, 21(1), 1-10. (2020)
- (Very late xerostomia, dysphagia, and neck fibrosis after head and neck radiotherapy. Head & Neck, 41(10), 3594-3603. (2019)
Contact & links
- Lab address: campus UZ Gent, entrance 98, floor 1, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Margot Baudelet is interested to receive invitations for presentations or talks