ReviewNutrients2021
The Role of Nutritional Support for Cancer Patients in Palliative Care.
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- Trajectory subgroups and influencing factors of nutrition-related risk in older NSCLC patients undergoing chemotherapy.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
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- Nutrition support therapy prescribing practices in hospice and palliative care units: a retrospective cohort study investigating physician prescribing practices and roles of pharmacists at a tertiary cancer center.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2025Article
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Abstract
The role of nutritional support for cancer patients in palliative care is still a controversial topic, in part because there is no consensus on the definition of a palliative care patient because of ambiguity in the common medical use of the adjective palliative. Nonetheless, guidelines recommend assessing nutritional deficiencies in all such patients because, regardless of whether they are still on anticancer treatments or not, malnutrition leads to low performance status, impaired quality of life (QoL), unplanned hospitalizations, and reduced survival. Because nutritional interventions tailored to individual needs may be beneficial, guidelines recommend that if oral food intake remains inadequate despite counseling and oral nutritional supplements, home enteral nutrition or, if this is not sufficient or feasible, home parenteral nutrition (supplemental or total) should be considered in suitable patients. The purpose of this narrative review is to identify in these cancer patients the area of overlapping between the two therapeutic approaches consisting of nutritional support and palliative care in light of the variables that determine its identification (guidelines, evidence, ethics, and law). However, nutritional support for cancer patients in palliative care may be more likely to contribute to improving their QoL when part of a comprehensive early palliative care approach.
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