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ESPEN expert group recommendations for action against cancer-related malnutrition

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Arends, J., Baracos, V., Bertz, H., Bozzetti, F., Calder, P.C., Deutz, N.E.P., Erickson, N., Laviano, A. +11 more·2017·Clinical Nutrition

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Patients with cancer are at particularly high risk for malnutrition because both the disease and its treatments threaten their nutritional status. Yet cancer-related nutritional risk is sometimes overlooked or under-treated by clinicians, patients, and their families. The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) recently published evidence-based guidelines for nutritional care in patients with cancer. In further support of these guidelines, an ESPEN oncology expert group met for a Cancer and Nutrition Workshop in Berlin on October 24 and 25, 2016. The group examined the causes and consequences of cancer-related malnutrition, reviewed treatment approaches currently available, and built the rationale and impetus for clinicians involved with care of patients with cancer to take actions that facilitate nutrition support in practice. The content of this position paper is based on presentations and discussions at the Berlin meeting. The expert group emphasized 3 key steps to update nutritional care for people with cancer: (1) screen all patients with cancer for nutritional risk early in the course of their care, regardless of body mass index and weight history; (2) expand nutrition-related assessment practices to include measures of anorexia, body composition, inflammatory biomarkers, resting energy expenditure, and physical function; (3) use multimodal nutritional interventions with individualized plans, including care focused on increasing nutritional intake, lessening inflammation and hypermetabolic stress, and increasing physical activity.

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  • In 2017, the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism published evidence-based guidelines for nutritional care and recommended that body composition measures be added to expand nutrition-related assessments, aiding clinicians in treating patients with cancer cachexia and researchers investigating the condition.

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  • Obesity is a risk factor for multiple cancers including postmenopausal breast, renal cell, and endometrial cancer, so these survivors are more likely to be overweight or obese at diagnosis.

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Arends, J., Baracos, V., Bertz, H., Bozzetti, F., Calder, P. C., Deutz, N. E. P., Erickson, N., Laviano, A., Lisanti, M. P., Lobo, D. N., McMillan, D. C., Muscaritoli, M., Ockenga, J., Pirlich, M., Strasser, F., de van der Schueren, M., Van Gossum, A., Vaupel, P., & Weimann, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Freiburg (DE)
  • University of Alberta (CA)
  • University of Milan (IT)
  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • Texas A&M University (US)
  • LMU Klinikum (DE)
  • Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
  • University of Salford (GB)
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
  • University of Glasgow (GB)
  • Klinikum Bremen-Mitte (DE)
  • Kantonsspital St. Gallen (CH)
  • TUM Klinikum (DE)
  • Klinikum St. Georg (DE)
Corresponding author
Arends, J.
Venue
Clinical Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-10
Volume
36
Issue
5
Pages
1187-1196
ISSN
0261-5614 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2706197370
Cited by
1,305
References
91
Citations by year
2026: 123 · 2025: 151 · 2024: 181 · 2023: 161 · 2022: 221 · 2021: 169 · 2020: 162 · 2019: 75 · 2018: 55 · 2017: 5
FWCI
9.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) (submittedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
  • University of Salford Institutional Repository (University of Salford) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders
Medical Research Council (MR/P021220/1)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education
Keywords
cancer-related malnutrition, nutritional risk screening, nutritional assessment, anorexia, body composition, inflammatory markers, resting energy expenditure, physical function, inflammation, nutritional support, cancer patients
MeSH terms
Body Composition, Diet, Humans, Neoplasms, Terminology as Topic, Nutritional Requirements, Nutritional Status, Exercise, Nutrition Assessment, Body Mass Index, Prevalence, Health Care Costs, Nutritional Support, Malnutrition

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