The cachexia clinic: From staging to managing nutritional and functional problems in advanced cancer patients

Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 293-304

  Vigano, Antonio A L ^a   Del Fabbro, Egidio ^b   Bruera, Eduardo ^b   Borod, Manuel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aPG SGA; Cachexia clinic; Cachexia staging; Cancer; Prognosis; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CACHEXIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; CACHEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863834857     PISSN: 08939675     EISSN: 21626448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevOncog.v17.i3.70     Document Type: Article

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