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Hyperalimentation in cancer.

H I Karlberg, J E Fischer

    The Western Journal of Medicine
    |May 1, 1982
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    While cancer patients with poor nutrition have worse outcomes, evidence supporting nutritional support to improve cancer therapy tolerance or survival is limited. Nutritional support should complement, not replace, cancer treatments.

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    Area of Science:

    • Oncology
    • Clinical Nutrition
    • Cancer Therapeutics

    Background:

    • Poor nutritional status in cancer patients is linked to worse prognosis.
    • The hypothesis suggests nutritional support improves tolerance to cancer treatments and outcomes.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To review the literature on the efficacy of nutritional support in cancer patients.
    • To evaluate if nutritional support impacts cancer treatment tolerance and patient outcomes.

    Main Methods:

    • Literature review of studies investigating nutritional support in cancer therapy.
    • Analysis of evidence from randomized, prospective trials.

    Main Results:

    • Limited evidence supports that nutritional support significantly improves cancer treatment tolerance or outcomes.

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  • Cachexia negatively impacts cancer patients, but its course or outcome is not demonstrably altered by nutritional support alone.

    • Conclusions:

    • Nutritional support for cancer patients is reasonable when given alongside specific anticancer therapy.
    • Supportive nutritional therapy alone, delaying definitive cancer treatment, is not currently justifiable.