title: Report of a Joint Cancer Research UK/Medical Research Council workshop on cancer cachexia research at the Royal College of Physicians, Tuesday, 2 December 2003.
abstract: A joint workshop held by Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council aimed to stimulate interest in further research into the area of cancer cachexia. The workshop was divided into four sessions: an overview of cancer cachexia, potential mechanisms involved and methodologies that might be used to understand cachexia, and also the experience of cachexia from other disease areas. The workshop identified a need to develop a multimodal therapeutic approach to cancer cachexia and a need to undertake more multidisciplinary research.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council, Resource Centre for Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratories, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, CB1 9NL, 01223 426356, UK. toni.steer@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Steer
mesh_terms: D002100:Cachexia / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D012307:Risk Factors; D015431:Weight Loss