Quality of life and length of survival in advanced cancer patients on home parenteral nutrition

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 281-288

  Bozzetti, F ^a   Cozzaglio, Luca ^a   Biganzoli, E ^b   Chiavenna, G ^a   De Cicco, M ^a   Donati, D ^a   Gilli, G ^a   Percolla, S ^a   Pironi, L ^a  

^a Italian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

HPN; Incurable cancer patients; Nutritional support; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STARVATION; SYMPTOM; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, HOME; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0036022721     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/clnu.2002.0560     Document Type: Article

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