Cancer patients may gradually lose their appetite at some point and become unable to accept food. On the other hand, for family members, seeing the patient grow thinner is a deeply unsettling and ...

As Independence Day approaches, neighborhoods across Palm Beach County are gearing up for backyard celebrations complete with fireworks. However, before you head to the local retail tent to stock up ...

Thank you for your hard work studying for the Heart Failure Educator exam! When evaluating elderly heart failure patients, the three concepts of "frailty," "sarcopenia," and "cachexia" are almost ...

Actor Dipika Kakar, who is currently battling a cancer relapse in her liver, has lost 2 kg over the past month through a strict diet, nutrition and lifestyle discipline. This approach is necessary, ...

A Spanish study used epigenetic fingerprints to trace hidden exposure patterns and found that a widely used herbicide may be linked to the troubling rise of colorectal cancer in younger adults. Study: ...

One of the most common conditions associated with pancreatic cancer may also be one of the least understood: Cancer cachexia. Sometimes known as wasting syndrome, cancer cachexia is the loss of 5% or ...

Peanut butter is enjoyed by a lot of people and is known to have several health benefits. A recent randomised controlled trial (RCT) analysed whether daily peanut butter could enhance physical ...

Patient comments are gathered from our patient experience survey and displayed in their entirety. For the convenience of our visitors, some patient comments have been translated from their original ...

Ponsegromab treatment led to sustained weight gain and GDF-15 suppression over 64 weeks in cancer-associated cachexia patients. Patients initially on placebo gained weight after switching to ...

Recently, representing PanCAN Patient Services as our manager of research and education communication, I joined a group of patient advocates and researchers in Cambridge, UK, for an annual symposium ...

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently published in the journal ...

aDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Osaka, Suita, Japan bDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, ...