Investigating the nutritional status characteristics of terminal cancer patients by the type of cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients with terminal cancer experience malnutrition due to cachexia and other problems associated with the disease's progression. Particularly, patients with gastrointestinal cancers often experience malnutrition because of gastrointestinal symptoms; however, there are few reports evaluating nutritional status based on cancer type up to the prediction of prognosis. In the present study, we examined nutritional evaluation and prognosis based on cancer type.

Methods

In 2019, 234 patients were admitted to Fujita Health University Nanakuri Memorial Hospital and subsequently died before being discharged. Of these patients, 210 were included in the study. Twenty-four patients who were determined to have refractory cachexia on admission were excluded. The 210 patients w

SUBMITTER: Tsuzuki N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12327208 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature