Increased Emergency Department Utilization and Costs for Medicare Cancer Patients with Malnutrition Diagnoses.

Background: Malnutrition or its risk affects up to 70% of cancer patients. Compared to adequately nourished oncology patients, those with malnutrition experience more complications and have poorer prognoses, thus higher needs for healthcare. We compared utilization of emergency department (ED) services and costs for Medicare-covered cancer patients with or without a malnutrition diagnosis.

Examining guidelines and new evidence in oncology nutrition: a position paper on gaps and opportunities in multimodal approaches to improve patient care.

Malnutrition, muscle loss, and cachexia are prevalent in cancer and remain key challenges in oncology today. These conditions are frequently underrecognized and undertreated and have devastating consequences for patients. Early nutrition screening/assessment and intervention are associated with improved patient outcomes.

Impact of Early Incorporation of Nutrition Interventions as a Component of Cancer Therapy in Adults: A Review.

Malnutrition is prevalent among oncology patients and can adversely affect clinical outcomes, prognosis, quality of life, and survival. This review evaluates current trends in the literature and reported evidence around the timing and impact of specific nutrition interventions in oncology patients undergoing active cancer treatment. Previous research studies (published 1 January 2010-1 April 2020) were identified and selected using predefined search strategy and selection criteria.

Stereotactic body radiation therapy: normal tissue and tumor control effects with large dose per fraction.

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a potent noninvasive means of administering high radiation doses to demarcated tumor deposits in extracranial locations. The treatments use image guidance and related advanced treatment delivery technologies for the purpose of escalating the radiation dose to the tumor, while sharply minimizing the radiation doses to surrounding normal tissues. The local tumor control outcomes for SBRT have been higher than any previously published for the radiotherapy of frequently occurring carcinomas.

Preliminary report of the effect of high-dose adjuvant intensity modulated radiation therapy on the sural nerve graft for cavernosal nerve sacrifice after radical prostatectomy.

Purpose: A sural nerve graft may replace a killed cavernosal nerve. The effect of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) on function of the graft has not been reported.

Materials And Methods: Between 1998 and 2001, 8 patients (9 nerve grafts) were treated with postoperative IMRT (mean dose, 70 Gy).