Federico Bozzetti

TL;DR: Liver transplantation is an effective treatment for small, unresectable hepatocellular carcinomas in patients with cirrhosis and after four years, the actuarial survival rate was 75 percent and the rate of recurrence-free survival was 83 percent.

TL;DR: These evidence-based guidelines were developed to translate current best evidence and expert opinion into recommendations for multi-disciplinary teams responsible for identification, prevention, and treatment of reversible elements of malnutrition in adult cancer patients.

TL;DR: The guidelines for the use of oral nutritional supplements (ONS) and tube feeding (TF) in cancer patients were developed by an interdisciplinary expert group in accordance with officially accepted standards as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In modern surgical practice it is advisable to manage patients within an enhanced recovery protocol and thereby have them eating normal food within 1-3 days and in patients who require postoperative artificial nutrition, enteral feeding or a combination of enteral and supplementary parenteral feeding is the first choice.

TL;DR: A robust grading system incorporating the independent prognostic significance of both BMI and %WL was developed and was observed within specific cancers, stages, ages, and performance status and in an independent validation sample.