Importancia del estado nutricional en el paciente con cáncer
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Concepción López Carrizosa [1] ; Pilar Samper Ots [1] ; Manuel Joaquín Martín de Miguel [1] ; Antonio Rodríguez Pérez [1] ; Carmen Vallejo Ocaña [1] ; Juan de Dios Sáez Garrido [1] ; José María Delgado Pérez [1]
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[1] Hospital Central de la Defensa
Hospital Central de la Defensa
Madrid, España
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- Localización: Oncología, ISSN 0378-4835, Vol. 26, Nº. 8, 2003, págs. 23-37
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
The inability to sustain an appropriate nutritional status is a common problem in oncology patients. Both the neoplastic disease and its treatment lead to severe protein-caloric malnutrition which has prognostic significance. In this article, we review the pathophysiology of cancer cachexia and the local, systemic and secondary effects, such as the nutrition-associated complications of patients undergoing antitumor therapy. Despite the controversy surrounding the final benefit of pharmacologic management and nutritional support of anorexia/caquexia, we evaluate the potential methods and we conclude that the nutritional assessment should be part of cancer treatment in order to improve the outcome and to limit the complications. We have a simple, sensitive and specific method to evaluate it: The Subjective Global Assessment of nutritional status.
