Study Shows That Half Of Patients With Cancer Presents Malnutrition

The following epidemiological study carried out by spanish centers designed to get to know the influence of malnutrition in cancer patients, whose resolutions indicated that half of the patients are moderately or severely malnourished in the time of the detection of the disease.

The study, which has been disclosed in the us magazine "Clinical nutrition", is the initial this prototype that takes place at international level, so that the deductions have been manifested in several congresses on oncology and are an observation for investigations.

The charge of the Section of Hospitalization Cancer of the Consortium and component of the board of specialists of the investigation, said that the outcome of the study is significant, since before his execution was considered that the malnutrition disturbed to a third of patients with cancer.

The origins of this malnutrition is because patients eat less and lose the appetite for the metabolic changes that originate and that also involved in the use of nutrients. The study also said that 97 per cent of the patients demand some kind of nutritional intervention.

Among the consequences of malnutrition can mention wear on mass and muscle strength causing weakness, in addition a reduced response to the tolerance of the treatments, lower quality of life and an increase of the danger of inconvenience. It also recommends an assessment to the patient to evaluate its state of nutrition.

The cancer and nutrition are strictly related, because the condition can cause malnutrition and malnutrition can disrupt so damaging the progress of the disease. This study expresses that cancer patients well fed still more time.



 

   

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