Cancer cachexia in adult patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines☆
- Study type
- Clinical guideline
- Study name
- ESMO Cancer Cachexia 2021
- Design
- Clinical Practice Guideline developed by a multidisciplinary group of experts, based on available scientific data and the authors' expert opinion
- Sample size
- Per the registered abstract: not stated
- Source
- ESMO Open · 2021
In plain words
Cancer cachexia is a condition in which a person with cancer loses weight and becomes weak. This guideline explains how doctors should recognise and assess this problem early and manage it with several treatments at the same time. If you are losing weight or have lost your appetite, tell your treatment team.
Study population
Adult patients with cancer cachexia (details of the target population are not given in the registered abstract and are in the full text of the guideline).
Endpoints
This document is a guideline and has no trial endpoints. Its focus is screening, assessment and multimodal management of cancer cachexia.
Safety and side effects
The registered abstract gives no information on adverse effects. Details are in the full text of the guideline.
Clinical significance and place in guidelines
Based on the available information, this guideline provides the ESMO framework for screening, assessment and multimodal management of cancer cachexia in adults. The detailed recommendations and their levels of evidence are not given in the registered abstract and should be checked in the full text of the guideline. An erratum has been published for this paper (ESMO Open. 2022;7(6):100614), which should be taken into account when using the guideline.
Limitations
According to the record, the recommendations were developed on the basis of available scientific data and the authors' expert opinion, so some of them may rest on expert opinion. The PubMed record does not include a structured abstract or the text of the recommendations. Some authors declared financial relationships with pharmaceutical and nutrition companies.
This summary was prepared by the editorial team from the published paper; the original paper is the final reference. Read the original abstract on PubMed.