title: [Enteral feeding in oncology].
abstract: Nutrition therapy is accepted to represent an important part of therapeutic strategy in cancer patients. In correlation to general clinical state, nutritional condition and anti-cancer therapy, nutrition has to be planned according to a stepwise concept. Under certain circumstances, enteral tube feeding is indicated. This procedure is affected by tumor lesions, digestion, resorption and tumor related metabolic disorders, and side effects of particulate anti-cancer therapy. In tumor patients, elemental (chemically defined) diets are predominant. Polymeric diets, however, occasionally represent another possible nutritional tool.
authors.affiliation: Abt. Gastroenterologie und Stoffwechsel, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dehnert
mesh_terms: D002100:Cachexia / Q000628:therapy*; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods*; D005526:Food, Formulated; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care
vernacular_title: Sondenernährung in der Onkologie.