ReviewNutrients2021
The Clinical Value of Nutritional Care before and during Active Cancer Treatment.
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- Optimizing Clinical Nutrition Management for Elderly Hospitalized Patients: Current Practices and Insights.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
- Retrospective study on the tolerability using a four-cycle completion in elderly patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer: a body mass index-based analysis.Translational lung cancer research · 2026Article
- Effect of a multidisciplinary nutrition care model integrating health education and individualized nutritional support on physical function and nutritional outcomes in patients with advanced malignant tumors: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Pretreatment prognostic nutritional index and immune status for response to preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy in cervical squamous cell carcinoma: an exploratory retrospective study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Cancer treatment fatigue and nutritional awareness in cancer patients: a latent profile analysis and predictors.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Physical Performance, Sarcopenia and Malnutrition-Basic Test Set for Everyday Use in Cancer Therapy.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
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- Association between nutritional status, chemotherapy cycle count and treatment responses in adults with cancer in Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Malnutrition and muscle wasting are frequently reported in cancer patients, either linked to the tumor itself or caused by oncologic therapies. Understanding the value of nutritional care during cancer treatment remains crucial. In fact, cancer-associated sarcopenia plays a key role in determining higher rates of morbidity, mortality, treatment-induced toxicities, prolonged hospitalizations and reduced adherence to anticancer treatment, worsening quality of life and survival. Planning baseline screening to intercept nutritional troubles earlier, organizing timely reassessments, and providing adequate counselling and dietary support, healthcare professional may positively interfere with this process and improve patients' overall outcomes during the whole disease course. Several screening tools have been proposed for this purpose. Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS), Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) are the most common studied. Interestingly, second-level tools including skeletal muscle index (SMI) and bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) provide a more precise assessment of body composition, even if they are more complex. However, nutritional assessment is not currently used in clinical practice and procedures must be standardized in order to improve the efficacy of standard chemotherapy, targeted agents or even checkpoint inhibitors that is potentially linked with the patients' nutritional status. In the present review, we will discuss about malnutrition and the importance of an early nutritional assessment during chemotherapy and treatment with novel checkpoint inhibitors, in order to prevent treatment-induced toxicities and to improve survival outcomes.
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