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- Title
Problematika výživy u onkologicky nemocných pacientů.
- Authors
LUKEŠOVÁ, Š; KOPECKÝ, O.
- Abstract
Anorexia and cachexia occur in up to 80 % of patients with advanced cancer. This article summarizes the presumed causes and discusses the possibilities of its pharmacological and nutritional influence. Planning of correct nutrition for cancer patients should be integrated into treatment from the outset. The first method of choice is natural oral nutrition with meals of small volume but high energy content. If this fails, we choice for pharmaceutical enteral nutrition: -- sipping, -- either nasoenteral or nasogastric intubation to administer nutrition, -- percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. Parenteral nutrition in oncology is indicated in patients with digestive failure following extensive bowel resection and patients with severe enteropathy following tumour radiotherapy. Parenteral nutrition should not be routinely used for extending the terminal stages of incurable disease.
- Subjects
APPETITE loss; CACHEXIA; CANCER patients; PHARMACOLOGY; DIET in disease; NUTRITION
- Publication
General Practitioner / Praktický Lékař, 2011, Vol 91, Issue 6, p321
- ISSN
0032-6739
- Publication type
Article