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Cancer cachexia

International Journal of Cardiology, 2002
Cancer cachexia is a complex, multifactorial syndrome that results from a reduction in food intake, a variety of metabolic abnormalities (including hypermetabolism) or more often a combination of the two. Multiple mediator pathways including pro-inflammatory cytokines, neuroendocrine hormones and tumour-specific factors are involved. Therapy requires a
Kenneth C H, Fearon, Alastair G W, Moses
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Cancer Cachexia

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing
Cancer cachexia is characterized by metabolic dysregulation, inflammation, and reduced food intake, and it results in loss of skeletal muscle. Although cachexia is pervasive in patients with advanced cancer, comprehensive cac.
Michael S Yule   +3 more
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Cancer cachexia

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 1987
Cancer cachexia is a complex syndrome that includes host tissue wasting, anorexia, asthenia, and abnormal host intermediary metabolism. It is present in approximately 50% of cancer patients during treatment and nearly 100% of treated cancer patients at death. Cachexia has a detrimental impact on cancer therapy. The central problem of cancer cachexia is
Jeffrey A. Norton   +3 more
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Cachexia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000
Cachexia represents the clinical consequence of a chronic, systemic inflammatory response, and its manifestations differ considerably from those of starvation. Although cachexia is classically associated with chronic infections and malignant conditions, some of its elements have been identified in a wide variety of chronic diseases and in aging persons.
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Cancer cachexia

Surgical Oncology, 1999
Cachexia is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with advanced cancer. It is characterised by numerous metabolic abnormalities including inefficient substrate utilisation, alterations in the balance of energy intake and expenditure and the acute-phase protein response.
M D, Barber, J A, Ross, K C, Fearon
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Pulmonary cachexia

International Journal of Cardiology, 2002
Weight loss is a frequent complication in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is a determining factor of functional capacity, health status, and mortality. Weight loss in COPD is a consequence of increased energy requirements unbalanced by dietary intake.
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Cancer cachexia

Cancer, 1979
Cancer cachexia is characterized clinically by anorexia, early satiety, weight loss. anemia, and marked asthenia. The syndrome is not the result of semistarvation alone but it represents a complex metabolic problem. In the host there are abnormalities in metabolism of energy, carbohydrate, lipid and protein, in water content, in acid-base balance, in ...
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Cachexia

2022
The diagnosis of cachexia is based on loss of body weight and low body mass index plus at least three out of five additional criteria: decrease in muscle strength, fatigue, anorexia, low lean body mass, and abnormal biochemistry. Cachexia affects 50-80% of cancer patients, accounting for up to 20% of all cancer-related deaths.
Marzetti E.   +3 more
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Cryptic Cachexia

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Camila D. Odio   +4 more
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[Cachexia].

Revista de enfermeria (Barcelona, Spain), 2005
Cachexia is a frequent syndrome in patients suffering from advanced cancer; it is characterized by anorexia, weight loss, and malnutrition, which combined with other psychic and social consequences lead to a deterioration in a patient's quality of life. Various factors play a role in the development of cachexia; these depend on the patient, the type of
Maria Angeles, Olalla Gallo   +3 more
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