Nutritional Prehabilitation Intervention in Hematological Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Background: Nutritional interventions play a critical role in bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients. This review evaluates the effectiveness of nutritional strategies in mitigating post-transplant malnutrition and improving clinical outcomes.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted using PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and Embase.

Parenteral lipid emulsions: the state of the art.

Purpose Of Review: Several types of injectable lipid emulsions (ILEs) have become available for parenteral nutrition. The purpose of this review is to highlight the most recent and interesting articles in the field of ILEs.

Recent Findings: Recent literature has compared ILEs in various clinical scenarios (e.

Nephrotoxicity in locally advanced head and neck cancer: when the end justifies the means to preserve nutritional status during chemoradiation.

Cisplatin is a nephrotoxic agent able to damage renal function both in acute and chronic phases. Radiotherapy concomitant with cisplatin 100 mg/m given once every 3 weeks is the curative standard of care for locally advanced head and neck cancer. A prospective evaluation of a wide range of biochemical and anthropometrical parameters, handgrip strength, risk of malnutrition, visual analogue scale of appetite, and body composition was performed before, during, and after concomitant chemoradiotherapy in 60 consecutive patients affected by locally advanced head and neck cancer.

Harnessing tumor metabolism during cancer treatment: A narrative review of emerging dietary approaches.

Cancer is currently one of the biggest public health challenges worldwide, ranking as the second leading cause of death globally. To date, strong epidemiological associations have been demonstrated between unhealthy lifestyles and eating habits, i.e.