Muscle Wasting and Cancer: Nutritional Intervention, Multimodal Management and Outcomes
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2020) | Viewed by 3106
Special Issue Editor
2. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research In Health of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: cancer; cell metabolism; mechanisms of carcinogenesis and cancer progression; cancer-cachexia; outcomes research; medical nutrition and nutritional modulation of anti-neoplastic treatments; body composition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutritional wasting and undernutrition can influence treatment outcomes, delay wound healing, worsen muscle function and increase the risk of post-operative complications. It can also impair tolerance and response to antineoplastic treatments, which can in turn lead to extended hospital stays, increase the risk for treatment interruptions, and possibly reduce survival rates. Cancer treatments such as surgery and antineoplastic treatments can also significantly impact patients’ nutritional status and body composition. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy related symptoms occur in more than 50% of patients.
The prevention and management of nutritional wasting is increasingly recognised as a significant element of cancer care. Bearing this in mind, the clinical efforts and priority given to improve treatment outcomes, will logically have to include nutritional management, nutritional interventions and adequacy of body composition. The search for effective nutritional interventions that improve body composition (through the preservation of muscle mass and muscle quality) is of utmost importance for clinicians and patients, given the implications for prognosis. This Special Issue welcomes novel multidisciplinary research aimed at understanding optimal nutrition interventions to revert, prevent and treat nutritional wasting in different cancer types. Original studies and systematic reviews of the literature are welcome, on themes such as:
- Research on nutritional status, body composition, clinical parameters and their evolution throughout the disease course of different cancers
- Nutritional interventions, their efficacy and their impact on patient outcomes
- Metabolic and nutritional alterations that influence patient recovery and survival
- Intervention studies
- Multimodal interventions and outcomes
- Controlled randomised studies
- Analytical, descriptive and cross-sectional studies
- Systematic reviews
Prof. Dr. Paula Ravasco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nutritional Wasting
- Cachexia
- Cancer
- Multimodal management
- Cancer Outcomes
