The diversity of nutritional status in cancer: New insights

Oncologist

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 523-530

  Chaves, Mariana Ramos ^a   Boléo Tomé, Carolina ^a   Monteiro Grillo, Isabel ^a,b   Camilo, Maria ^a   Ravasco, Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b S Francisco Xavier CHLO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cancer; Histological aggressiveness; Nutritional status; Patient generated subjective global assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BODY MASS; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EFFECT SIZE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OCCULT CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT GENERATED SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; SARCOMA; STOMACH CANCER; THYMOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952655386     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2009-0283     Document Type: Article

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