Nutrition in Cancer
It is clear that nutritional wasting in cancer is not due solely to a nutrient deficit or tumor/host competition for essential nutrients, but to complex metabolic changes in tissues arising from anorexia, tumor progression, systemic inflammation, reduced muscle mass and function, tumor catabolic factors, increased by proinflammatory cytokines, as well as the psychosocial sequelae.
It is clear that nutritional wasting in cancer is not due solely to a nutrient deficit or tumor/host competition for essential nutrients, but to complex metabolic changes in tissues arising from anorexia, tumor progression, systemic inflammation, reduced muscle mass and function, tumor catabolic factors, increased by proinflammatory cytokines, as well as the psychosocial sequelae.
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