Malnutrition is a frequent problem in patients with cancer, which leads to prolonged hospitalisation, a higher degree of treatment-related toxicity, reduced response to cancer treatment, impaired quality of life and a worse prognosis. The attitude towards this issue varies considerably among oncologists, and many malnourished patients still receive inadequate nutritional support. This could be ...

Nutritional concern is one of the most important issues to be addressed in the perioperative care given to gastrointestinal patients. Not at least, malnutrition may be detrimental and relate to postoperative morbidity. Perioperative nutritional management, integrated with other modern perioperative care policies, allows the establishment of multimodal strategies with an attempt to optimize the ...