Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Cachexia
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Wasting syndrome
- Medical condition.image
- Riehl Zumbusch Tafel LVIII (2).jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- Person with cancer-associated cachexia
- Medical condition.field
- Oncology, internal medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Sudden weight loss, altered eating signals
- Medical condition.prognosis
- Very poor
- Medical condition.frequency
- 1%
- Medical condition.deaths
- 1.5 to 2 million people a year
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Research
15,585 papers- Cancer cachexia: molecular mechanisms and treatment strategies.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2023
- Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus.The Lancet. Oncology · 2011
- Cancer Cachexia: Its Mechanism and Clinical Significance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
- Mechanisms of cancer cachexia and targeted therapeutic strategies.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2024
- Cachexia: a new definition.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
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- health specialty
- internal medicine
- ICPC 2 ID
- T08
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- megestrol
- Commons category
- Cachexia
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000402
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