ReviewNutrients2014
Evidence and mechanisms of fat depletion in cancer.
Review in Nutrients, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Adiposity and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2022Pooled it
- The Effect of Exercise and Nutritional Interventions on Body Composition in Patients with Advanced or Metastatic Cancer: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Cancer Cachexia Research and Drug Development: Lessons from Failures and the Promise of Immunomodulation.Cancers · 2026Review
- Effect of preoperative body composition on long-term outcomes in patients undergoing distal cholangiocarcinoma resection.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Subcutaneous adipose tissue loss as an early indicator of cancer cachexia in unresectable pancreatic cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Predictive equations commonly used in the clinic underestimate resting energy expenditure compared with whole-room indirect calorimetry in colorectal cancer survivors.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- In vivo and in silico approaches for evaluating nerolidol-β-cyclodextrin nanoparticles: Antioxidant potential and hormonal modulation in DMBA-induced mammary carcinoma.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Effects of dietary glutamine supplementation on lipid metabolism, fatty acid composition, and taste properties in the longissimus thoracis muscle of feed-restricted yaks.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2026Article
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- Integrated CT-based assessment of muscle and adiposity for risk stratification in advanced pancreatobiliary cancer.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- AI-based body composition analysis of CT data has the potential to predict disease course in patients with multiple myeloma.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Deep learning models for deriving optimised measures of fat and muscle mass from MRI.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hallmarks of Cancer Cachexia: Sexual Dimorphism in Related Pathways.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the relationship between fat mass index and metabolic syndrome among cancer patients in the U.S: An NHANES analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparison of the Changes in Visceral Adipose Tissue After Lobectomy and Segmentectomy for Patients With Early-Stage Lung Cancer.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2025Article
- Association between a body shape index and low back pain: a cross-sectional study highlighting gender-specific differences in NHANES data.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The association between body composition and overall survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The role of PPARγ in cancer cachexia: friend or foe?Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Prognostic impact of body composition and immune-nutritional status in oligometastatic NSCLC patients receiving radiotherapy.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
The majority of cancer patients experience wasting characterized by muscle loss with or without fat loss. In human and animal models of cancer, body composition assessment and morphological analysis reveals adipose atrophy and presence of smaller adipocytes. Fat loss is associated with reduced quality of life in cancer patients and shorter survival independent of body mass index. Fat loss occurs in both visceral and subcutaneous depots; however, the pattern of loss has been incompletely characterized. Increased lipolysis and fat oxidation, decreased lipogenesis, impaired lipid depositionand adipogenesis, as well as browning of white adipose tissue may underlie adipose atrophy in cancer. Inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) produced by the tumor or adipose tissue may also contribute to adipose depletion. Identifying the mechanisms and time course of fat mass changes in cancer may help identify individuals at risk of adipose depletion and define interventions to circumvent wasting. This review outlines current knowledge of fat mass in cancer and illustrates the need for further studies to assess alterations in visceral and subcutaneous adipose depots and possible mechanisms for loss of fat during cancer progression.
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