Malnutrition and cachexia have a negative impact on the course of treatment in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Good evidence exists for the practical use of the ...

A new model of cancer-related cachexia promises to help scientists understand why patients with cancer show severe wasting, which in turn may drive the development of better therapies. Cachexia refers ...

Tumor growth is associated with profound metabolic and neurochemical alterations, which can lead to the onset of anorexia−cachexia syndrome. Anorexia is defined as the loss of the desire to eat, while ...

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 ...

It is estimated that as many as 80% of advanced-stage cancer patients may develop cachexia, a potentially fatal metabolic syndrome characterized by extreme weight loss and muscle wasting, but ...

NEW YORK, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohr Pharmaceutical (OTCQB: OHRP), a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for large unmet medical needs, today announced the ...

Communicating with family members about cachexia and anorexia can be difficult. "I tell patients' families to gently encourage but don't try to force feed, because that is actually worse than doing ...

Z526- a novel dithiocarbamate-like compound reverses cancer associated cachexia via mitigating NF-κB signaling and oxidative stress. In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that Z526, a novel ...

Cachexia is a syndrome characterized by severe loss of weight and muscle mass. It is present in approximately half of all lung cancer patients and is particularly damaging in cases of non-small cell ...

Supplemental oxygen for relief of dyspnea in hospice patients. Background: Physical activity is an important component of the physical and social domains of quality of life (QL); therefore any ...