Diagnostic criteria for cancer cachexia: reduced food intake and inflammation predict weight loss and survival in an international, multi‐cohort analysis

• Main Authors: Lisa Martin (Author), Maurizio Muscaritoli (Author), Isabelle Bourdel‐Marchasson (Author), Catherine Kubrak (Author), Barry Laird (Author), Bruno Gagnon (Author), Martin Chasen (Author), Ioannis Gioulbasanis (Author), Ola Wallengren (Author), Anne C. Voss (Author), Francois Goldwasser (Author), R. Thomas Jagoe (Author), Chris Deans (Author), Federico Bozzetti (Author), Florian Strasser (Author), Lene Thoresen (Author), Sean Kazemi (Author), Vickie Baracos (Author), Pierre Senesse (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Cancer‐associated weight loss (WL) associates with increased mortality. International consensus suggests that WL is driven by a variable combination of reduced food intake and/or altered metabolism, the latter often represented by the inflammatory biomarker C‐reactive protein (CR...