Nutrition status of patients with common cancer in China: gap,mission and challenge

摘要

Malnutrition reduces tolerance and effectiveness of anti-tumor treatment(ANT),increases the risk of complications,medical costs,and death(Arends et al.,2017).About 40%of patients with cancer die because of malnutrition rather than the disease itself(Barton,2017;Roeland et al.,2020).In order to set up a panorama for association among nutrition status,nutrition support treatment(NST),ANT and outcomes in patients with neoplasms,the Chinese Society of Nutritional Oncology(CSNO)conducted a multicenter prospective cohort program called Investigation on Nutrition Status and its Clinical Outcome of Common Cancers(INSCOC)from 2013.