Optimizing Nutritional Status in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy: A Systematic Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nutrition is a modifiable risk factor for patients undergoing multimodal oncologic interventions and plays a major supportive role in the setting of bladder cancer. For patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC), malnutrition is associated with increased postoperative complications and mortality.

Objectives

The purpose of this scoping review is to characterize the role of nutritional interventions for patients undergoing RC for bladder cancer.

Methods

A multi-database systematic scoping review based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines was performed. Search terms were developed a priori to identify clinical trials that focused on nutritional interventions for patients with blad

SUBMITTER: Alam SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8730471 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature