[Improvement of the nutritional status and quality of life of cancer patients through a protocol of evaluation and nutritional intervention].

Objective: to apply a protocol that facilitates the detection of malnutrition in cancer patients during their treatment of radiotherapy or chemotherapy, selecting those that could benefit from a specific nutritional intervention.

Methodology: malnutrition was assessed with the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST). Patients at malnutrition risk were evaluated with patient generated subjective-global assessment (PG-SGA) and a subgroup of the sample studied was also assessed with a quality of life (CV) using the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire.

[Pre-operative nutrition support in patients waiting for digestive surgery at Hospital Mateu Orfila (Maó-Menorca)].

Malnutrition is associated with high postoperative morbidity and mortality rates. This pilot study evaluated the effectiveness of a peri-operative nutritional support programme for patients who were about to undergo major gastrointestinal surgery. A high-calorie/high-protein enteral formula was administered peri-operatively to the group of patients at nutritional risk/with malnutrition (NR/MN).