Nutritional support in patients with malignant disease.
Clinicians have long been aware of the major nutritional and metabolic abnormalities that occur in patients with cancer. Such abnormalities are varied and hence both the indications and techniques for their correction are also diverse. The aim of the present paper is to consider certain specific aspects of nutritional support in cancer and the authors end with a brief review of areas of study which may prove useful in future.
D004032:Diet; D005527:Food, Fortified; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy*; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition