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Assessing malnutrition among chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy cancer Benghazi outpatients

2011-01-01

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent of actual malnutrition and its risk among cancer patients receiving radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in the Libyan city of Benghazi. Design/methodology/approach – A cross-sectional nutritional assessment study using the patient-generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) was carried out on 200 (91 males and 109 females) cancer patients undergoing ch...

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Literature Corpus work: 34a68fcd-d4d1-5e1a-b786-b7f3badf4623
DOI: 10.1108/00346651111170897

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