Maintaining good health and well-being is crucial for how well patients respond to cancer treatments. Unfortunately, cachexia, or involuntary weight loss, is a major concern for many individuals with ...

Cachexia in older SCLC patients leads to inferior survival rates and increased treatment complications, such as dose reductions and incomplete chemotherapy courses. Patients with cachexia had ...

With cachexia, the muscles in your body will waste away regardless of how much you eat. The condition causes severe weight loss. (Photo Credit: Dr P. Marazzi/Science Source) Cachexia (aka “wasting ...

Researchers have discovered a new potential drug target for the lethal wasting disease known as cancer cachexia. Their findings illustrate that even small groups of neurons in the brain can have an ...

Effect of distress on total toxicity burden and activities of daily living among 382 advanced stage cancer patients: A URCC CCOP research base study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ...

Gene expression profile (GEP) for the prediction of pathologic complete response (pCR): Preliminary data from a neoadjuvant study of capecitabine (C), oxaliplatin (OXP), and radiation (RT) for ...

Brazilian researchers have discovered that a drug regularly prescribed to control cholesterol can also be used to treat cachexia, or wasting syndrome, a condition characterized by rapid weight loss ...

In a vast majority of cases, cachexia is associated with the terminal stage of chronic diseases. In 20% of these terminal patients, cachexia is the cause of death. Among patients with pancreatic, lung ...

Cancer cachexia is a complex metabolic syndrome characterized by the ongoing loss of skeletal muscle mass, with or without fat loss, that cannot be reversed entirely by conventional nutritional ...