Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1221-1226

  Israëls, Trijn ^a,b   Borgstein, Eric ^a   Jamali, Monica ^a   De Kraker, Jan ^b   Caron, Huib N ^b   Molyneux, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Micronutrients; Nephroblastoma; Nutritional status; Preoperative chemotherapy; Wilms

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; MAGNESIUM; RETINOL; VINCRISTINE; ZINC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; SIOP PROTOCOL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METASTASIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PEANUT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR VOLUME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; FAMILY HEALTH; INFANT; KIDNEY TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY;

ANOREXIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DACTINOMYCIN; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICRONUTRIENTS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; VINCRISTINE; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 70449730836     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22158     Document Type: Article

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