ESPEN Guideline on Nutrition and Hydration in Dementia

This practical guideline gives guidance to health care providers involved in the management of cancer patients to offer optimal nutritional care.

All cancer patients should be screened regularly for the risk or the presence of malnutrition. In all patients - with the exception of end of life care - energy ...

This practical guideline is based on the current scientific ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients.

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The ESPEN practical guideline “Clinical Nutrition in. Cancer” has been structured according to a flow chart covering all nutritional aspects of cancer (Fig. 1).

The specific objectives of this guideline, therefore, are to improve early detection and treatment of malnutrition and metabolic derangements in cancer patients.

Patients with cancer are at particularly high risk for malnutrition because both the disease and its treatments threaten their nutritional status.

The practical guideline is dedicated to all professionals including physicians, dieticians, nutritionists and nurses working with patients with cancer.

We recommend nutritional intervention to increase oral intake in cancer patients who are able to eat but are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. This ...