Defining the clinical condition of cancer patients: it is time to switch from performance status to nutritional status

Support Care Cancer. 2011 Jul;19(7):869-70. doi: 10.1007/s00520-011-1122-z. Epub 2011 Mar 10.

Authors

Anatole Cessot, Xavier Hebuterne, Romain Coriat, Jean-Philippe Durand, Olivier Mir, Christine Mateus, Wulfran Cacheux, Etienne Lemarie, Mauricette Michallet, Claude Beauvillain de Montreuil, François Goldwasser; French Nutrition Oncology Study Group

PMID: 21387161
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1122-z

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Humans
Karnofsky Performance Status*
Malnutrition / etiology*
Malnutrition / pathology
Neoplasms / complications*
Neoplasms / pathology
Nutritional Status*