Nutritional assessment of patients with common abdominal carcinoma
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4203.2015.04.021
- VernacularTitle:腹部常见恶性肿瘤患者的营养状况评估
- Author:
Jian GUO
;
Yanzhong ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Abdominal neoplasms;
Nutritional status;
Health status indicators
- From:
International Journal of Surgery
2015;42(4):280-284
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
It is considered that cancer-related malnutrition is caused by the imbalance of the nutritional consumption of patients,the tumor itself and the nutrient available internal.Patients with abdominal neoplasm have a great risk of getting malnutrition,which is resulting from the changes of their biochemical status,clinical symptoms and the impacts by surgery.In 1980s,people began to realize that it is important to assess the nutritional status of patients and now so do the most of doctors.Until now,there is some acceptable assessment questionnaire,by using which,we find that a large proportion of patients with abdominal cancer have malnutrition,and when it comes to different kind of abdominal cancer,the rate is not same.
