Federico Bozzetti

TL;DR: Depending on the patient's condition and the disease's stage, artificial nutrition may have a "permissive" role in patients receiving aggressive oncologic therapy or represent just a supportive treatment in patients likely to succumb from starvation sooner than from tumor progression.

TL;DR: A high prevalence of malnutrition among esophageal cancer patients which worsened during Chemoradiotherapy is demonstrated, warranting early screening and monitoring of nutritional status and effective nutritional interventions with symptoms management during treatment in these patients.

TL;DR: This paper, after a short review of topics including the interaction between sarcopenia and cancer cachexia, the nutritional status as a component of geriatric assessment tools, the prevalence of malnutrition and the negative prognostic role of malnutrition, focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of the nutritional support of the elderly cancer patient.

TL;DR: It is not evident that TPN is dangerous for cancer patients, however, it may be possible in the future to employ different formulas to improve the host nutritional status and inhibit tumor growth.

TL;DR: This preliminary investigation shows that home parenteral nutrition does not exacerbate the level of strain on caregivers involved in surveillance of such a supportive intervention and it is possible that the perception of an active contribution to the benefit of patients, who maintained unchanged their nutritional status and quality of life, could gratify caregivers.