| Description |
xiv, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction and definitions / Vickie E. Baracos -- Metabolism and physiology / Vickie E. Baracos and Henrique A. Parsons -- Assessment of nutritional status / Vickie E. Baracos ... [et al.] -- Epidemiology of body weight and body weight loss and its relation to cancer / Egidio Del Fabbro and Vickie E. Baracos -- Mechanisms of primary cachexia / Vickie E. Baracos and Henrique A. Parsons -- Conducting clinical research in cancer cachexia / Henrique A. Parsons and Eduardo Bruera -- Appetite stimulants / Florian Strasser and David Blum -- Anabolic hormones / Jose Garcia -- Immune modulators / Egidio Del Fabbro -- Autonomic system modulators / Nada Fadul -- Multimodality therapy / Egidio Del Fabbro -- Classification of cancer cachexia and secondary nutrition impact symptoms / Florian Strasser -- Oral complications / Carla Ida Ripamonti ... [et al.] -- Nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer / Mellar P. Davis -- Early satiety / Mellar P. Davis -- Disordered bowel function / David Blum and Florian Strasser -- Depression and fatigue / Elizabeth Kvale, Casey Balentine Azuero, Eric Walker -- Counseling by dietitians / Laura Elliot and Barbara Parry -- Multidisciplinary approach to nutritional problems / Colette Hawkins ... [et al.] -- Nutritional support : an overview / Tim E. Bowling |
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Oral and enteral nutrition / Jeremy Woodward -- Nutrition in advanced malignancy: parental nutrition, palliative surgery and gastrointestinal stents / Pradeep F. Thomas and Dileep N. Lobo -- Ethics and medically assisted nutrition and hydration / Paulina Taboada, Alejandra Palma, and Beatriz Shand -- Cultural and religious factors / Sarah Toule -- Nutrition and complementary and alternative medicine / Eran Be-Arye, Dena Norton, Moshe Frenkel -- Exercise therapy / Lee W. Jones -- The cancer survivor / Wendy Demark-Wahnefried -- Nutritional management of patients receiving primary cancer therapy / Richard D. Johnson, Rachel A. Barrett, and Tim E. Bowling -- Nutritional management in recurrent, advanced or metastatic cancer / Shalini Dalal -- Patients at the end of life / Egidio Del Fabbro -- Paediatric patients / Sian Kirkham and Martin Hewitt -- Nutritional care of older people / Jane Hopkinson and Christopher Bailey -- Nutrition and comorbidities / Marvin Omar Delgado Guay -- Patients in the developing world / Richard Harding and Liz Gwyther -- Involuntary weight loss and altered body image in patients with cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome / Susan E. McClement |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Patients -- Nutrition.
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Neoplasms -- therapy.
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Nutritional Support.
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| Author |
Del Fabbro, Egidio.
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| LC no. |
2011293927 |
| ISBN |
0199550190 (cased) |
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9780199550197 (cased) |
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