The progress of cancer malnutrition research during radiotherapy / 实用肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Cancer malnutrition observed in 31%~87% patients with cancer can reduce the tolerance and compliance to radiotherapy ,interrupt or delay the treatment ,and significantly affect the prognosis .The malnu-trition may be aggravated when the duration of radiotherapy is prolonged and chemotherapy is applied concurrent -ly.PG-SGA is the most suitable method for nutritional risk screening in patients with malignant tumor .According to the result of nutrition assessment ,giving the adaptive nutrition support can improve the nutritional status of pa-tients and the curative effect in the early stage of radiotherapy ,as wells as post radiotherapy .