Body composition such as skeletal muscle, body water, and adipose tissue can help to understand nutritional and physical status. In cancer patients, changes in body composition such as sarcopenia, myosteatosis, adipose tissue browning, and adipose tissue atrophy can be the result of metabolic changes and systematic inflammation caused by cancer itself and/or oncological treatments. Patients undergoing major surgery for cancers are more likely to have changes in their body composition due to anatomical and physiological changes as well as metabolic stresses associated with surgical operations. Changes in body composition can have detrimental consequences including increased morbidity and motility, delayed postoperative recovery, and, more importantly, worse survival prognosis. Nutritional therapy has been at the front line of this uphill battle providing energy and nutrition substrates. Special regiments have been tailored for surgical oncology patients and showed encouraging results. Efforts have also been made to explore the use of dietary supplements, oral nutritional supplements, enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, and physical exercises to alleviate the unfavorable changes in body composition in order to improve nutritional and physical function as well as clinical outcomes.
We would like to ask researchers to share their knowledge on the changes in body composition of cancer patients and their effect on physical function, nutritional status, quality of life, and other aspects associated with treatment tolerance and outcomes. Short-term outcomes such as perioperative morbidity and mortality as well as long-term outcomes such as chemo/radiation therapy tolerance and survival status would better help to appreciate the importance of this topic. Methods to evaluate body composition will also be discussed for better clinical practice and scientific research. We would also like to ask researchers to share their experiences and research data on nutrition intervention strategies in modulating body composition.
We welcome submissions related to the following:
• Changes in body composition of surgical oncology patients and their impact on outcomes;
• Evaluation of body composition in clinical and research settings;
• Enteral and parenteral nutrition interventions;
• Dietary supplements and oral nutritional supplements;
• The joint effect of combining physical exercise and nutritional intervention.
Body composition such as skeletal muscle, body water, and adipose tissue can help to understand nutritional and physical status. In cancer patients, changes in body composition such as sarcopenia, myosteatosis, adipose tissue browning, and adipose tissue atrophy can be the result of metabolic changes and systematic inflammation caused by cancer itself and/or oncological treatments. Patients undergoing major surgery for cancers are more likely to have changes in their body composition due to anatomical and physiological changes as well as metabolic stresses associated with surgical operations. Changes in body composition can have detrimental consequences including increased morbidity and motility, delayed postoperative recovery, and, more importantly, worse survival prognosis. Nutritional therapy has been at the front line of this uphill battle providing energy and nutrition substrates. Special regiments have been tailored for surgical oncology patients and showed encouraging results. Efforts have also been made to explore the use of dietary supplements, oral nutritional supplements, enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, and physical exercises to alleviate the unfavorable changes in body composition in order to improve nutritional and physical function as well as clinical outcomes.
We would like to ask researchers to share their knowledge on the changes in body composition of cancer patients and their effect on physical function, nutritional status, quality of life, and other aspects associated with treatment tolerance and outcomes. Short-term outcomes such as perioperative morbidity and mortality as well as long-term outcomes such as chemo/radiation therapy tolerance and survival status would better help to appreciate the importance of this topic. Methods to evaluate body composition will also be discussed for better clinical practice and scientific research. We would also like to ask researchers to share their experiences and research data on nutrition intervention strategies in modulating body composition.
We welcome submissions related to the following:
• Changes in body composition of surgical oncology patients and their impact on outcomes;
• Evaluation of body composition in clinical and research settings;
• Enteral and parenteral nutrition interventions;
• Dietary supplements and oral nutritional supplements;
• The joint effect of combining physical exercise and nutritional intervention.
