New research from the University of Oklahoma, published today in Cancer Cell, describes for the first time a "triangle regulation theory" of cancer-induced cachexia and anorexia. Cachexia is a ...

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 ...

Cachexia is a paraneoplastic syndrome of unintentional adipose and muscle tissue wasting with severe impacts to functionality and quality of life. Although health inequities across minority and ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who developed cancer cachexia after CAR-T for lymphoma had poorer survival. They also had worse ...

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 ...