[Anorexia and cachexia in neoplastic diseases]

The viewpoints of heterogenous medical and other specialists as regards the problems of anorexia and cachexia in oncological patients are still to be subjected to experimental and clinical elaboration and specification. A definite purposefulness is required during the disseminated stages as well as during the complications resulting from the treatment. Numerous publications on those problems appeared during the last several years and a separate copy of the competent journal "Cancer" (1979) of the American anticancer society in Philadelphia was dedicated to anorexia, cachexia and parenteral nutrition.