COLUMBUS, Ohio - The State Medical Board of Ohio added cachexia, also known as wasting disease, to the list of ailments for which people can legally obtain medical marijuana. It is the first condition ...

Cachexia in older SCLC patients leads to inferior survival rates and increased treatment complications, such as dose reductions and incomplete chemotherapy courses. Patients with cachexia had ...

With cachexia, the muscles in your body will waste away regardless of how much you eat. The condition causes severe weight loss. (Photo Credit: Dr P. Marazzi/Science Source) Cachexia (aka “wasting ...

Maintaining good health and well-being is crucial for how well patients respond to cancer treatments. Unfortunately, cachexia, or involuntary weight loss, is a major concern for many individuals with ...

•Cancer cachexia is a highly morbid condition that negatively affects quality of life, reduces tolerance to anticancer therapy, and confers poor survival. Despite this, there is no current US Food and ...

Cachexia is one of the most common metabolic syndromes in patients with advanced cancer and is associated with decreased physical function, suboptimal treatment outcomes, compromised quality of life, ...

Halting the advance of a muscle wasting condition called cachexia, could improve quality of life for cancer sufferers. For many years, oncologists and researchers thought the dramatic weight-loss of ...

Cachexia is a syndrome characterized by severe loss of weight and muscle mass. It is present in approximately half of all lung cancer patients and is particularly damaging in cases of non-small cell ...

Cardiac cachexia is defined as an advanced stage of heart failure associated with involuntary loss of at least 5% of non-oedematous body weight Muscle wasting, also known as sarcopenia, can occur ...

As a palliative-care researcher, Susan McClement has talked to many people dying of cancer and their families—and some of their stories are burned into her brain. One man was so concerned by the sight ...