title: Gross body composition changes in patients with cancer of the uterine cervix treated with irradiation.
abstract: Gross body composition studies done on a group of 11 women with cervical cancer before and after completion of radiotherapy revealed moderate compositional changes. There was after irradiation a tendency towards weight loss, connected with some increase of relative total body water content and also its extracellular fraction. The weight loss was due to a decrease of body fat and cell mass, whereas extracellular spaces tended to increase. There was a tendency towards a drop in plasma sodium concentration and an increase of its total content in extracellular water. A significant drop of the potassium serum concentration was observed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001823:Body Composition / Q000528:radiation effects*; D001834:Body Water; D002712:Chlorides / Q000032:analysis; D003404:Creatinine / Q000032:analysis; D005110:Extracellular Space / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011188:Potassium / Q000032:analysis; D012964:Sodium / Q000032:analysis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*
chemical_list: D002712:Chlorides; D012964:Sodium; D003404:Creatinine; D011188:Potassium