Invited Review: Nutrition Support in Patients With Cancer: What Do the Data Really Show?

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 91-100

  Klein, Samuel ^a   Koretz, Ronald L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NOTE; NUTRITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0028455307     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/011542659400900391     Document Type: Review

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