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Acute hospitalization of cancer community-based patients: a cross sectional loo...
Neto, Elisabete; Alves, Paula; Correia, Marta; Irving, SusanaBackground - Cancer-related malnutrition is prevalent. Moreover, nutritional status can be dynamic, resulting from a cumulative risk of deterioration, specially if multimodal treatments are proposed. Nowadays, due to treatment advances, more people living with cancer are being managed as community-based outpatients. Systematic nutritional risk identification should be conducted and established throughout the on...
What is new in cancer cachexia comprehension and treatment?
Dias, Mariana; Irving, Susana; Alves, Paula; Correia, MartaCancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome, associated with an underlying illness, characterized by involuntary weight loss and skeleton muscle mass impairment and reduction, with or without loss of fat mass. It emerges within a systemic inflammation and metabolic disturbance setting, entailing a significant impact in treatment toxicity, quality of life, functional capacity and mortality. Although the convent...