Fish oil-enriched nutrition combined with systemic chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer patients with cancer cachexia

Fish oil-enriched nutrition combined with systemic chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer patients with cancer cachexia

Abstract Despite recent advances in chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer, a crucial factor related to poor prognosis is reduced tolerance to chemotherapy induced by cancer cachexia. Fish oil (FO)-derived eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) modulates inflammation in patients with various malignancies; ho...

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Main Authors: Yumiko Shirai, Yoshinaga Okugawa, Asahi Hishida, Aki Ogawa, Kyoko Okamoto, Miki Shintani, Yuki Morimoto, Ryutaro Nishikawa, Takeshi Yokoe, Koji Tanaka, Hisashi Urata, Yuji Toiyama, Yasuhiro Inoue, Motoyoshi Tanaka, Yasuhiko Mohri, Ajay Goel, Masato Kusunoki, Donald C. McMillan, Chikao Miki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05278-0

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05278-0

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