Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Cachexia

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  • David Blum
  • Ola Magne Vagnildhaug
  • Guro Birgitte Stene
  • Matthew Maddocks
  • Sørensen, Jonas
  • Barry J. A. Laird
  • Carla M. Prado
  • Tora Skeidsvoll Solheim
  • Jann Arends
  • Jane Hopkinson
  • Christopher A. Jones
  • Mathias Schloegl

Cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome that is common in cancer and chronic disease. It is often underdiagnosed and therefore goes untreated or undertreated. Cachexia causes suffering across biopsychosocial domains and affects patients and their loved ones. In this article, a group of clinicians and researchers across cancer care, nutrition, and exercise offers tips about assessment, classification, and management of cachexia, with attention to its stage. The required multimodal management of cachexia mirrors well the interprofessional collaboration that is the mainstay of interdisciplinary palliative care and attention to screening, diagnosis, and management of cachexia is critical to maximize patients' quality of life.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Palliative Medicine
Volume26
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)1133-1138
ISSN1096-6218
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

    Research areas

  • advanced cancer, cachexia, fatigue, myotoxicity, serious illness, symptom management, CANCER CACHEXIA, CLASSIFICATION, ASSOCIATION, THERAPY

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