ReviewJournal of Cancer2019
Nutritional Therapy in Cancer Patients Receiving Chemoradiotherapy: Should We Need Stronger Recommendations to Act for Improving Outcomes?
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Catastrophic health expenditures and food insecurity among older cancer survivors in the United States.Health economics review · 2025Article
- Nutritional assessments and interventions in head and neck, esophageal, rectal and lung cancers undergoing anticancer treatments: a literature review.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- What are we doing concretely for the food prevention of cancer? Nutrition between scientific evidence and myopic policies.Drugs in context · 2024Article
- Impact of weight loss on treatment interruption and unplanned hospital admission in head and neck cancer patients undergoing curative (chemo)-radiotherapy in Hong Kong.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Global Trends of Nutrition in Cancer Research: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis Study over the Past 10 Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Chemoradiotherapy Versus Chemotherapy Alone for Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: The Role of Definitive Radiotherapy for Primary Tumor in the Metastatic Setting.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Supplemental parenteral nutrition in cancer care: why, who, when.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2022Review
- Nutritional support management in resectable gastric cancer.Drugs in context · 2022Review
- Clinical nutrition as part of the treatment pathway of pancreatic cancer patients: an expert consensus.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022Article
- Nutritional Support in Cancer patients: update of the Italian Intersociety Working Group practical recommendations.Journal of Cancer · 2022Article
- Prevalence and prognostic impact of cachexia among older patients with cancer: a nationwide cross-sectional survey (NutriAgeCancer).Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Article
- Nutritional Intervention Improves Nutrition Outcomes in Stomach and Colon Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: Finding from a Quasi-Experiment in Vietnam.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Health services research in colorectal cancer: a quasi-experimental interventional pilot study on in- and outpatient oncology.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2021Article
- The lost art of preventive oncology.Ecancermedicalscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
One of the challenges during chemotherapy and radiotherapy is to complete the planned cycles and doses without dose-limiting toxicity. Growing evidence clearly demonstrates the relationship between dose-limiting toxicity and low muscle mass. Moreover, malnutrition leads to low performance status, impaired quality of life, unplanned hospital admissions, and reduced survival. In the past, the lack of clear and authoritative recommendations and guidelines has meant that oncologists have not always fully appreciated the importance of nutritional therapy in patients receiving anticancer treatments. Therefore, collaboration between oncologists and clinical nutrition specialists needs to be urgently improved. Recent guidelines from scientific societies and practical recommendations by inter-society consensus documents can be summarized as follows: 1) timely nutritional therapy should be carefully considered if patients undergoing anticancer treatments are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition due to inadequate oral intake; 2) if oral intake is inadequate despite counseling and oral nutritional supplements, supplemental enteral nutrition or, if this is not sufficient or feasible, parenteral nutrition should be considered; 3) home artificial nutrition should be prescribed and regularly monitored using defined protocols developed between oncologists and clinical nutrition specialists; 4) appropriate nutritional management in the context of simultaneous care should become a guaranteed right for all patients with cancer. The purpose of this review is to provide oncologists with an overview of the aims and current evidence about nutrition in oncology, together with updated practical and concise recommendations on the application of nutritional therapy in cancer patients receiving chemoradiotherapy.
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