Monitoring nutritional status of cancer patients boosts outcomes

Malnutrition in cancer patients is often associated with loss of lean body mass and can be caused by a combination of factors such as inadequate food intake, decreased physical activity and metabolic derangements, often referred to as cancer cachexia. These derangements can be host- or tumour-derived, such as elevated resting metabolic rate, insulin resistance, lipolysis and proteolysis, which aggravate weight loss and are worsened by systemic inflammation and catabolic factors.¹

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