Weight loss, appetite loss and food intake in cancer patients with cancer cachexia: Three peas in a pod?-analysis from a multicenter cross sectional study

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 539-546

  Solheim, Tora S ^a,b,c   Blum, David ^a,c   Fayers, Peter M ^a,d   Hjermstad, Marianne J ^c,e   Stene, Guro B ^a   Strasser, Florian ^f   Kaasa, Stein ^a,b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f Kantonsspital St Gallen Division of Oncology Haematology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CACHEXIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOSS OF APPETITE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; APPETITE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EATING; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPETITE; CACHEXIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897005383     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2013.823239     Document Type: Article

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