title: [Nutritional support in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancer].
abstract: Patients with gastrointestinal(GI) tract neoplasms usually suffer from malnutrition, which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, reduction of treatment efficacy, increased risk of therapy-associated side-effects, increased length of hospital stay, and reduced quality of life. Proposing an adaptive nutritional support at each step of a multidisciplinary treatment approach for GI cancer is essential.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China. wu.guohao@zs-hospital.sh.cn.
authors.forename: Guohao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D018529:Nutritional Support; D011788:Quality of Life