A randomized phase II study of nutritional and exercise treatment for elderly patients with advanced non-small cell lung or pancreatic cancer: the NEXTAC-TWO study protocol

Abstract Background Most advanced elderly cancer patients experience fatigue, anorexia, and declining physical function due to cancer cachexia, for which effective interventions have not been established. We performed a phase I study of a new nonpharmacological multimodal intervention called the nut...

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Published in:	BMC Cancer
Main Authors:	Satoru Miura, Tateaki Naito, Shuichi Mitsunaga, Katsuhiro Omae, Keita Mori, Toshimi Inano, Teiko Yamaguchi, Noriatsu Tatematsu, Taro Okayama, Ayumu Morikawa, Takako Mouri, Hisashi Tanaka, Madoka Kimura, Hisao Imai, Takuro Mizukami, Akira Imoto, Chihiro Kondoh, Shinsuke Shiotsu, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Makoto Ueno, Toshiaki Takahashi, Tetsuya Tsuji, Hideki Aragane, Akio Inui, Takashi Higashiguchi, Koichi Takayama
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2019-05-01
Subjects:	Cachexia Elderly patients Lung cancer Pancreatic cancer Multimodal intervention
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-5762-6