Insights about cachexia, one of cancer's most common complications, hiding in routine patient data
Cancer cachexia has long been one of oncology's most stubborn unsolved problems. This severe, uncontrollable wasting affects roughly half of all cancer patients. It makes treatment harder to tolerate, erodes a person's quality of life and is associated with worse outcomes.
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