Impacts of fluid retention on prognostic abilities of cachexia diagnostic criteria in cancer patients with refractory cachexia

The international cancer cachexia criteria with a cutoff of 5% weight loss (WL) was proposed in Western patients. The Asian Working Group for Cachexia (AWGC) developed new criteria in Asian patients. The AWGC criteria are not cancer-specific and employ a cutoff of 2% WL. However, it is unclear whether both criteria are useful in patients with very advanced cancer because WL can be underestimated owing to fluid retention. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the impacts of fluid retention on the prognostic abilities of both criteria in cancer patients with weeks of survival.

Source: Clinical Nutrition ESPEN - February 28, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Koji Amano, Satomi Okamura, Vickie E. Baracos, Naoharu Mori, Tatsuma Sakaguchi, Yu Uneno, Yusuke Hiratsuka, Jun Hamano, Tomofumi Miura, Hiroto Ishiki, Naosuke Yokomichi, Yutaka Hatano, Tatsuya Morita, Masanori Mori, the East-Asian collaborative cross-cult Tags: Original article Source Type: research