A viscerally driven cachexia syndrome in patients with advanced colorectal cancer: contributions of organ and tumor mass to whole-body energy demands
Open Access
- 1 April 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 89 (4), 1173-1179
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.27273
Abstract
Background: Cancer cachexia–associated weight loss is poorly understood; energetically demanding tissues (eg, organ and tumor mass) and resting energKeywords
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