ArticleNutrients2021
Differential Diagnosis of Cachexia and Refractory Cachexia and the Impact of Appropriate Nutritional Intervention for Cachexia on Survival in Terminal Cancer Patients.
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- Reliable Radiologic Skeletal Muscle Area Assessment-A Biomarker for Cancer Cachexia Diagnosis.Cells · 2026Article
- Demographic and regional disparities in cancer cachexia-related mortality in the USA from 1999 to 2020 - A retrospective cross-sectional study.Future healthcare journal · 2026Article
- Reliable Radiologic Skeletal Muscle Area Assessment - A Biomarker for Cancer Cachexia Diagnosis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Severe Deficiency of Vitamin D and Anthracycline-Taxane Regimen are associated with Cachexia Following Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: A Single Center Assessment Using Two Consensus-Based Criteria.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025Article
- Low transthyretin is associated with the poor prognosis of colorectal cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- The atypical β-blocker S-oxprenolol reduces cachexia and improves survival in a rat cancer cachexia model.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2023Article
- Managing Cachexia in Head and Neck Cancer: a Systematic Scoping Review.Advances in therapy · 2022Article
- Primary Tumor Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxydglucose (Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Small and Large Intestine (II): Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Short Bowel Syndrome, and Malignant Tumors of the Digestive Tract.Nutrients · 2021Review
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Abstract
Cancer cachexia subsequently shifts to refractory cachexia, however, it is not easy to properly differentiate them in clinical settings. Patients considered refractory cachexia may include cachectic patients with starvation. This study aimed to identify these cachectic patients and to evaluate the effect of nutritional intervention for them. Study subjects were terminal cancer patients admitted for palliative care and were judged refractory cachexia in the last five years. We retrospectively examined to find useful indices for identifying such cachectic patients and for evaluating the effect of nutritional intervention. Out of 223 patients in refractory cachexia, 26 were diagnosed cachexia with starvation after symptom management. Comparing before and one week after this management, Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) and transthyretin significantly improved (
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