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The effect of nutrition intervention with oral nutritional supplements on pancreatic and bile duct cancer patients undergoing c

Cancer/ Palliative treatment
Nutrition
Author
Kim et al.
Used Parameters : FFM, SMM, BFM, BCM

Publication Year : 2019

Country : Korea

Journal : Nutrients

Chemotherapy may negatively affect nutritional status and quality of life (QOL) in pancreatic cancer patients. Our aim was to investigate the beneficial effects of oral nutrition supplements (ONS) on pancreatic and bile duct cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Among patients with progressive pancreatic and bile duct cancer receiving chemotherapy, the ONS group (n= 15) received two packs of ONS daily for 8 weeks while the non-ONS group (n= 19) did not. Anthropometric measures, dietary intake, nutritional status, and quality …
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