With cachexia, the muscles in your body will waste away regardless of how much you eat. The condition causes severe weight loss. (Photo Credit: Dr P. Marazzi/Science Source) Cachexia (aka “wasting ...

Cachexia in older SCLC patients leads to inferior survival rates and increased treatment complications, such as dose reductions and incomplete chemotherapy courses. Patients with cachexia had ...

Cachexia causes extreme weight loss and muscle wasting. It is a symptom of various chronic conditions such as cancer, chronic renal failure, HIV, and multiple sclerosis. Cachexia predominantly affects ...

Eating disorders are often thought of as body image disorders with symptoms of food restriction and purging. In most cases, the goal of these behaviors is to prevent weight gain. Not all eating ...

Communicating with family members about cachexia and anorexia can be difficult. "I tell patients' families to gently encourage but don't try to force feed, because that is actually worse than doing ...

The experience of young women diagnosed with breast cancer who undergo fertility preservation (FP) consultation. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

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