ID | 110278 |
Title Transcription | ガン ト エイヨウ フリョウ ガン アクエキシツ ショウカキガン オ チュウシン ニ
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Title Alternative | Cancer and malnutrition : particularly malnutrition in patients with cancer of digestive organs
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Author |
Takayama, Tetsuji
Department of Gastroenterology and Oncology, Institute of Health Biosciences, the University of Tokushima Graduate School
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Takenaka, Hidetaka
Department of Gastroenterology and Oncology, Institute of Health Biosciences, the University of Tokushima Graduate School
Takeuchi, Hisashi
Department of Gastroenterology and Oncology, Institute of Health Biosciences, the University of Tokushima Graduate School
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Keywords | cancer
malnutrition
anorexia
hypercytokinemia
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Journal Article
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Description | A majority of patients with cancer, in particularly cancer of digestive organs, shows malnutrition, leading to worse quality of life and occurrence of several complications. Mechanisms of being malnutrition include anorexia, abnormally affected metabolism, hypercytokinemia, chronic loss of blood, and consumption of nutrition by cancer growing. Nutritional states should be evaluated periodically by somatometry, blood chemistry, subjective nutritional assessment(SGA), and so on. On the basis of the assessment of nutrition, appropriate supplementation of nutrition should be performed. The routs of nutritional supplementation include oral ingestion, tubural feeding, gastrostomy tube, enterostomy tube, peripheral parenteral nutrition and intravenous hyperalimenation. Thus, appropriate nutritional administration in patients with cancer leads to better outcome of cancer treatment.
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Journal Title |
四国医学雑誌
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ISSN | 00373699
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NCID | AN00102041
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Publisher | 徳島医学会
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Volume | 65
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Issue | 3-4
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Start Page | 63
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End Page | 66
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Sort Key | 63
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Published Date | 2009-08-25
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Medical Sciences
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