Pitfalls in defining and quantifying cachexia
Open Access
- 10 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
- Vol. 2 (2) , 71-73
Abstract
Cancer-related symptoms such cachexia and pain are subjects of a proliferation of assessment tools, diagnostic criteria, and systems for staging, which are notably disparate, and lack agreement on t...Keywords
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