Should Loss of Appetite Be Palliated in Patients with Advanced Cancer?

Loss of appetite is common among patients with advanced cancer. However, it remains controversial how, when, and if to palliate this symptom. Here, we provide an update on recent as well as past literature to address the question of whether loss of appetite should be palliated in patients with advan...

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Autores principales: Ehret, Christopher, Jatoi, Aminah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Palliative and Supportive Care (MP Davis, Section Editor)
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33641020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11864-021-00829-0
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description Loss of appetite is common among patients with advanced cancer. However, it remains controversial how, when, and if to palliate this symptom. Here, we provide an update on recent as well as past literature to address the question of whether loss of appetite should be palliated in patients with advanced cancer. In our opinion—and as discussed here—we believe that this symptom should be palliated, although perhaps not always with pharmacologic interventions.
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spelling pubmed-79140342021-03-01 Should Loss of Appetite Be Palliated in Patients with Advanced Cancer? Ehret, Christopher Jatoi, Aminah Curr Treat Options Oncol Palliative and Supportive Care (MP Davis, Section Editor) Loss of appetite is common among patients with advanced cancer. However, it remains controversial how, when, and if to palliate this symptom. Here, we provide an update on recent as well as past literature to address the question of whether loss of appetite should be palliated in patients with advanced cancer. In our opinion—and as discussed here—we believe that this symptom should be palliated, although perhaps not always with pharmacologic interventions. Springer US 2021-02-27 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7914034/ /pubmed/33641020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11864-021-00829-0 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_short Should Loss of Appetite Be Palliated in Patients with Advanced Cancer?
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