Nutritional status of adolescents with hematological malignancies, bone tumors, and other solid tumors during the first year after diagnosis

摘要

We read with great interest the article by Tenardi et al. [1] on assessment of the nutritional status (NS) of children and young adults with Ewing sarcoma or osteosarcoma during therapy. The authors assessed 139 patients at diagnosis and 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 months subsequently and found that weight-for-age and BMI-for-age Z-scores declined markedly during treatment, reaching a nadir at 12 months, with recovery over the subsequent year. We would like to present the data of an assessment similar to that carried out by Tenardi et al. [1], but which included patients with hematological malignancies (n = 86) as well as solid tumors (n = 54) treated at our service [2].