Summary As a 4-in-1 instrument, the PG-SGA can streamline clinic work flow and improve
the quality of interaction between the clinician and the patient. The availability of multiple …

Malnutrition and muscle wasting are common features of cancer cachexia that may interfere
with the patient's response to cancer treatment, survival, and quality of life. An accurate …

Summary Background & aim The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) has
suggested a process for the diagnosis of malnutrition. The process consists of applying an …

Background & aims Malnutrition in cancer is an independent factor associated with negative
clinical outcomes. The aim was to evaluate the prevalence and independent risk factors for …

Gastric cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed and the leading cause of cancer
death worldwide. Malnutrition is a substantial problem in patients with gastric cancer …

Background Patients with cancer have an increased risk of malnutrition which is associated
with poor outcome. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA®) is often used in older patients …

Abstract Objectives In Dutch hospitals malnutrition screening is routinely performed at
admission, but not during follow-up or before discharge. Therefore we evaluated nutritional …

A tool to assess nutritional status in older persons was really needed. It took 5 years to
design the MNA®(Mini Nutrition Assessment) tool, complete the first validations studies both …

Background Malnutrition in cancer is an independent factor associated with negative clinical
outcomes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of malnutrition across …

Malnutrition is a common comorbidity in patients with cancer, with determinants linked to the
patients, the tumor, and the treatment. Cancer malnutrition, also called cachexia, represents …