ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2022
Current Insights in Nutrition Assessment and Intervention for Malnutrition or Muscle Loss in People with Lung Cancer: A Narrative Review.
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- Identification of prognostic nutritional index as a reliable prognostic indicator for advanced lung cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
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- [Malnutrition in lung cancer patients : Influence of preoperative nutritional status on the postoperative outcome in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after curative surgery].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Predictive Value of Peripheral Blood Inflammatory Markers and Nutritional Indices for Survival in Young Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Construction of a Nomogram.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Article
- Barriers to timely nutrition support in patients with cancer: A scoping review.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2026Article
- Dissecting the impact of Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score on survival outcomes and immune-inflammatory profiles in patients with advanced NSCLC undergoing first-line immunotherapy.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of lung cancer patients regarding nutritional management during chemotherapy.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Clinical phenotype identification based on inflammation-nutrition-coagulation biomarkers in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of fat-free mass index and survival in patients with lung cancer: a multicenter cohort study.International journal of clinical oncology · 2026Article
- Machine learning model for predicting malnutrition risk in lung cancer patients after thoracoscopic resection: a multi-center study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Prevalence of malnutrition and the appropriateness of nutritional support among patients with hematologic malignancies: a GLIM-based study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) Score as a Predictor of Prognosis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.Nutrients · 2025Article
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- Medically tailored meals in lung cancer care: patient experiences from the NutriCare Clinical Trial.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- Prognostic Role of Inflammatory and Nutritional Indices in NSCLC Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Retrospective, Multicenter, Turkish Oncology Group Study of Overall and Elderly Populations.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
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- The Impact of Nutritional Support on Outcomes of Lung Cancer Surgery-Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Predictive significance of the hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, and platelet score for radiation pneumonitis in lung cancer patients: a respective comparative study with dosimetric parameters.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Analysis of clinical factors and inflammatory cytokines in patients with lung cancer and sarcopenia: a prospective single-center cohort study.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Up to 70% of people with lung cancer may be affected by cancer-related malnutrition or muscle loss, depending on treatment modality and disease stage. This narrative review explores recent studies on malnutrition and muscle loss as well as nutritional and multimodal interventions to treat these conditions in the context of the changing treatment landscape in lung cancer. Various types of interventions, including individualized counseling, protein and other specific nutrient supplementation, as well as multimodal interventions to treat malnutrition and muscle loss, have been investigated. Overall, individualized dietary counseling, increasing protein intake, and supplementation with omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids appear to be beneficial for some, albeit varying, patient outcomes. Multimodal interventions, generally including a nutrition and exercise component, show promising results; however, the impact on patient outcomes is mixed. A key finding of this review is a lack of large, randomized trials to guide nutrition intervention specifically in people with lung cancer. Despite the high prevalence of malnutrition and muscle loss in people with lung cancer and the known adverse outcomes, current evidence for nutrition intervention is limited. A targeted effort is required to improve the quality of evidence for nutrition intervention in this population to provide support for clinicians to deliver effective nutrition care.
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