The impact of antitumor therapy on nutrition.
The treatment of the cancer patient by surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy can impose significant nutritional disabilities on the host. The nutritional disabilities seen in the tumor-bearing host from antitumor therapy are produced by factors which either limit oral intake or cause malabsorption of nutrients. The host malnutrition caused as a consequence of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy assumes even more importance when one realizes that many cancer patients are already debilitated from their disease.
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D002100:Cachexia / Q000209:etiology; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology; D008286:Malabsorption Syndromes / Q000209:etiology; D009092:Mucous Membrane / Q000187:drug effects / Q000528:radiation effects; D009325:Nausea / Q000139:chemically induced; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D013217:Starvation / Q000209:etiology; D013651:Taste Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D014987:Xerostomia / Q000209:etiology
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents