Background Attitudes of cancer survivors to nutrition and nutrition care have rarely been
captured. A better understanding of their needs based on a review of their experiences …

Context Limited evidence suggests that patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers receiving
chemotherapy (CTX) experience an average of 13 co-occurring symptoms. An alternative to …

Background Disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) associations with
anthropometric measures of obesity and changes in these exposures remain unknown …

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of anorexia and weight loss at diagnosis (pre-
treatment), to identify the factors associated with pre-treatment weight loss, and to determine …

Background Body weight and its changes have been associated with cancer outcomes.
However, the associations of short‐term peridiagnosis weight dynamics in standardized …

Background A significant proportion of patients with head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC) are malnourished at diagnosis. In this study, we investigated how …

Background Weight loss (WL) and sarcopenia are associated with negative oncological
outcomes including poor treatment tolerance, decreased quality of life, and reduced survival …

Background Cachexia is a debilitating complication of cancer characterized by progressive
wasting and weakness of skeletal muscles that reduces quality of life and can compromise …

Malnutrition is associated with treatment-related toxicities (TRT) in adults with solid tumors
and in children with leukemia. Few studies have assessed whether malnutrition in pediatric …

Adequate energy intake and homeostasis are fundamental for the appropriate growth and
maintenance of an organism; the presence of a tumor can break this equilibrium. Tumor …