Vanessa M. Carter

TL;DR: Current surgical oncology guidelines should be utilised until further research from high quality trials enable the development of specific clinical practice guidelines, as there is no evidence-based guidelines for nutrition support specific to UGI cancer surgery.

TL;DR: A prospective point prevalence study involving 27 Australian tertiary hospitals investigated nutritional status at the time of curative UGI cancer resection, as well as presence of preoperative nutrition impact symptoms, and associations with length of stay (LOS) and surgical complications as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The primary aim is to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer at the time of surgery using subjective global assessment and investigate associations between the use of an evidence-based nutrition care pathway or protocol for the nutritional management of upper gastrointestinal surgical oncology patients and malnutrition prevalence.

TL;DR: The NOURISH Point Prevalence Study as mentioned in this paper investigated type and frequency of preoperative dietetics intervention and nutrition support received and clinical and demographic factors associated with receipt of intervention, and associations between intervention and preoperative weight loss, surgical length of stay (LOS), and complications were also investigated.

TL;DR: Recommendations regarding the use of one tool over another could not be made, however, in the absence of a clear recommendation specific to GI cancer, screening tools that are well validated in general clinical populations should be utilised.