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Nutritional status, functional status, and quality of life: what is the impact ...
Santos, Inês Miranda; Mendes, Lino; Carolino, Elisabete; Santos, Carla AdrianaRationale and aims: Malnutrition is common and multifactorial in cancer patients (CP), combining the systemic inflammatory process with decreased food intake, loss of muscle and bone mass, and decreased functional status (FS). We aimed to track and evaluate the nutritional status (NS) of CP; associate results between hospitalized patients (HP) and day hospital patients (DHP); associate NS with tumor, symptoms, ...
Nutritional status and functional status of the pancreatic cancer patients and ...
Santos, Inês Miranda; Mendes, Lino; Mansinho, Hélder; Santos, Carla AdrianaRationale & aims: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the third most common type of gastrointestinal tract cancer in Europe and the fourth leading cause of death by cancer. Its initial stage is asymptomatic Therefore, the diagnosis tends to be late leading to locally advanced stages that presuppose late and debilitating symptoms, which consequently makes the Nutritional Status (NS) get worse. The weight loss (WL), malnut...