Integration of palliative, supportive, and nutritional care to alleviate eating-related distress among advanced cancer patients with cachexia and their family members

K Amano, VE Baracos, JB Hopkinson - Critical Reviews in Oncology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Advanced cancer patients with cachexia and their families can suffer from eating-related
distress. This complex entity encompasses patients' struggle to nourish themselves …

Management of cancer cachexia: ASCO guideline

EJ Roeland, K Bohlke, VE Baracos, E Bruera… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE To provide evidence-based guidance on the clinical management of cancer
cachexia in adult patients with advanced cancer. METHODS A systematic review of the …

Quality of life and symptom burden improve in patients attending a multidisciplinary clinical service for cancer cachexia: a retrospective observational review

KA Bland, M Harrison, EM Zopf, MS Sousa… - Journal of pain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Cancer cachexia negatively affects quality of life (QoL) and increases symptom
burden. A multimodal treatment approach may optimize cachexia outcomes, including QoL …

Diagnostic criteria for cancer cachexia: reduced food intake and inflammation predict weight loss and survival in an international, multi‐cohort analysis

L Martin, M Muscaritoli… - Journal of cachexia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cancer‐associated weight loss (WL) associates with increased mortality.
International consensus suggests that WL is driven by a variable combination of reduced …

The effect of nabilone on appetite, nutritional status, and quality of life in lung cancer patients: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial

JG Turcott, M del Rocío Guillen Núñez… - Supportive Care in …, 2018 - Springer
Background Over one half of the patients diagnosed with advanced lung cancer experience
anorexia. In addition to its high incidence, cancer-induced anorexia promotes the …

Nutrition support and clinical outcome in advanced cancer patients

A Laviano, L Di Lazzaro, A Koverech - Proceedings of the Nutrition …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Newly diagnosed cancer patients are frequently found suffering from a metastatic disease,
which poses additional challenges to the delivery of effective therapies. Chemotherapy and …

[HTML][HTML] “I want to get myself as fit as I can and not die just yet”–Perceptions of exercise in people with advanced cancer and cachexia: a qualitative study

KA Bland, M Krishnasamy, EB Parr, S Mulder… - BMC Palliative Care, 2022 - Springer
Cachexia is a prevalent muscle wasting syndrome among people with advanced cancer that
profoundly impacts patient quality of life (QoL) and physical function. Exercise can improve …

A randomized trial of adjunct testosterone for cancer‐related muscle loss in men and women

TJ Wright, EL Dillon, WJ Durham… - Journal of cachexia …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cancer cachexia negatively impacts cancer‐related treatment options, quality
of life, morbidity, and mortality, yet no established therapies exist. We investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic cancer cachexia: the role of nutritional interventions

T Mitchell, L Clarke, A Goldberg, KS Bishop - Healthcare, 2019 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic cancer is a cancer with one of the highest mortality rates and many pancreatic
cancer patients present with cachexia at diagnosis. The definition of cancer cachexia is not …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiome and nutrition-related predictors of response to immunotherapy in cancer: making sense of the puzzle

C Hes, RT Jagoe - BJC Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The gut microbiome is emerging as an important predictor of response to immune
checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy for patients with cancer. However, several nutrition-related …