Effects of specialised nutritional interventions in patients with incurable cancer: a systematic review.

Objective: To evaluate current evidence of the effect of specialised nutritional interventions on nutritional status, survival, quality of life and measures of functionality in patients with incurable cancer.

Methods: Systematic literature review according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines using PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, LILACS and Cochrane Library databases. Clinical studies that evaluated different specialised nutritional interventions, such as nutritional counselling, oral nutritional supplementation (ONS), enteral nutrition (EN) and parenteral nutrition (PN), were eligible.

The use of nutrition support near the end of life for hospitalized patients with advanced cancer at a reference center: Two realities.

Objective: To assess the frequency and factors associated of the provision of nutrition support (NS) in the last 30 days of life in patients with advanced cancer in the palliative or non-palliative setting.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study in palliative and non-palliative care units at a specialized cancer center for oncology in Brazil. The use of oral nutrition supplements (ONS) and enteral (EN) and parenteral (PN) nutrition in the 30 days before death were assessed.

Diphenyl diselenide confers neuroprotection against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in hippocampal slices.

The present study aimed at investigating the potential in vitro protective effect of the organochalcogenide diphenyl diselenide - (PhSe)2 - against hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced toxicity in rat hippocampal slices. Hippocampal slices were treated for 1 h with H2O2 (2 mM) in the presence or absence of (PhSe)2 (0.1-10 microM).