Supplemental parenteral nutrition in cancer care: why, who, when.

Malnutrition is an often-overlooked challenge for patients with cancer. It is associated with muscle mass reduction, poor compliance and response to cancer treatments, decreased quality of life, and reduced survival time. The nutritional assessment and intervention should be a vital part of any comprehensive cancer treatment plan.

Home parenteral support in patients with incurable cancer. Patient characteristics of importance for catheter related complications and overall survival.

Purpose: It is uncertain if home parenteral support (HPS) is of advantage in patients with incurable cancer and intestinal failure, functional obstruction or severe malabsorption. From a single centre cohort we present characteristics of patients with incurable cancer treated with HPS.

Methods: Over a ten year period (2005-2015) data were retrospectively collected on patients with incurable cancer discharged on HPS from a Danish tertiary referral centre.

Home parenteral nutrition increases fat free mass in patients with incurable gastrointestinal cancer. Results of a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Preventing loss of muscle mass and function is an enduring challenge in malnourished patients with incurable cancer. The benefit of supplemental home parenteral nutrition has not been firmly established. Our aim was to evaluate the effects of supplemental home parenteral nutrition, the primary endpoint being fat free mass (FFM) and secondary: muscle function, quality of life and overall survival.