Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1594: Plasma Metabolomics Identifies Lipid and Amino Acid Markers of Weight Loss in Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer

This study provides biological validation of the consensus definition of cancer cachexia (Fearon et al.) and provides feasible candidate markers for further investigation in early diagnosis and the assessment of therapeutic intervention.

Source: Cancers - October 18, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Janice Miller Ahmed Alshehri Michael I. Ramage Nathan A. Stephens Alexander B. Mullen Marie Boyd James A. Ross Stephen J. Wigmore David G. Watson Richard J.E. Skipworth Tags: Article Source Type: research