Editorial: Merging therapeutics and supportive care: synergy and yield.
Editorial: Merging therapeutics and supportive care: synergy and yield.
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社论:合并治疗和支持护理:协同作用和产量。
DOI:
10.1097/spc.0000000000000468
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Laird,BarryJA
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作者:
Jatoi,Aminah;Laird,BarryJA
Altman argues that mergers generate substantial synergies [1]. However, only recently are clinicians examining this supportive care paradigm from the standpoint of the circumstances and consequences of body composition changes and how such changes might improve disease outcomes. In this issue of Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, a variety of noteworthy articles discuss such topics as the implications of muscle loss in patients with pancreas cancer, the implications of muscle loss in patients with thoracic malignancies, the importance of recognizing cardiac cachexia and of intervening in a timely manner, the panoply of metabolic changes that appear to drive muscle loss in cancer patients, concern and vigilance for adverse events when administering antineoplastic therapy to weight-losing cancer patients, an assessment of the best and most appropriate dietary interventions for weight-losing patients with lung cancer, and the interplay between host metabolism and cancer immunotherapy.All the articles in the current issue are important, particularly within the context of prior work. Basile et al.(pp. 279–285) made the point that cancer therapy, as well as the host–tumor interactions and resulting inflammatory overdrive, can cause muscle wasting. These authors highlight that the traditional body surface area measurements used to inform chemotherapy dosing do not take into account the pharmacokinetics of treatment influenced by their hydro-or lipophilic dispersal. Indeed, it is acknowledged that the optimal way to treat cancer cachexia is to treat the underlying cancer; yet cancer treatment can cause nutritional and muscular deficits. It therefore stands to reason that the best-delivered cancer therapy merges the best-delivered treatment for cachexia. A step-change will be needed to enable body composition assessment to become foundational for prescribing both anticancer therapy–and, hopefully, in the future, effective cachexia therapy.