The effect of preoperative body composition and nutritional status measurements on clinical outcomes for patients with gastrointestinal cancer / 肠外与肠内营养

Malnutrition is a common complication in patients with gastrointestinal tract cancer and has adverse impact on clinical outcomes Thus preoperative comprehensive evaluation is needed to ensure perioperative safety.There are many tools to evaluate nutritional status.However,validated methods for identification of nutritional status in this group of patients is still absent,as well as the pathway for detecting cancer related to malnutrition.This review focuses on the studies related to evaluating the prognostic implications of nutrition related indicators in patients with gastrointestinal tract cancer to provide clinician reference of making preoperative nutritional status assessment.