SynthesisEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2020
Meta-analysis of preoperative oral nutritional supplements for patients with gastric cancer: East Asian experience.
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- Impact of Prehabilitation in Major Gastrointestinal Oncological Surgery: a Systematic Review.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2025Pooled it
- Application of oral nutritional supplements to control body weight loss in postoperative patients suffering from solid tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- High-protein oral nutritional supplement use in patients with cancer reduces complications and length of hospital stay: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of post-discharge oral nutritional supplements for patients with gastric cancer undergoing gastrectomy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
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- The impact of preoperative oral nutrition supplementation on outcomes in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery for cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Home Enteral Nutritional Support Compared With Normal Oral Diet in Postoperative Subjects With Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Resection: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Pooled it
- The effectiveness of health education based on the 5Ts for teach-back on oral nutritional supplements compliance of post-discharge patients after surgery for gastric cancer: a randomized controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Trial
- The Effect of Pre- and Postoperative Nutrition Support on Postoperative Outcomes and Complications in Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Surgery: An Umbrella Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2026Review
- Construction of Nursing Management Protocol for Promoting Tolerance of Enteral Nutrition in Tube-Fed Perioperative Cancer Patients.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- Summary of the best evidence for perioperative enteral nutrition management in patients with laryngeal cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Review
- Effect of Preoperative Body Mass Index on Postoperative and Long-Term Outcomes in an East Indian Gastric Cancer Cohort.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2024Article
- Preferences for oral nutritional supplement therapy among postoperative patients with gastric cancer: a discrete choice experiment.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
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- Nutritional Support for Treatment Continuity and Survival in Advanced Gastric Cancer: A Propensity Score-matched Study.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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Abstract
Whether it is beneficial to give preoperative oral nutritional supplements (P-ONS) to gastric cancer (GC) patients is still inconclusive. This study aimed to systematically explore the effectiveness and safety of P-ONS in GC patients. The PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, Cochrane Library, Chinese Biomedicine Literature Database (SinoMed), Chinese Scientific Journal Database (VIP), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang databases were searched to identify relevant literature. A total of 11 randomized controlled trials (1183 patients) were included. Meta-analysis showed significantly lower levels of white blood cells (MD, -0.65; 95% CI, -1.01 to -0.30; P = 0.0003) and C-reactive protein (MD, -0.24; 95% CI, -0.31 to -0.16; P < 0.00001) in the P-ONS group than those in the routine diet group. Compared with the routine diet group, the P-ONS group had higher levels of albumin (MD, 1.63; 95% CI, 0.40-2.87; P = 0.010), IgG (MD, 0.65; 95% CI, 0.44-0.86; P < 0.00001), IgA (MD, 0.20; 95% CI, 0.02-0.37; P = 0.03), CD4
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