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Cancer cachexia has many symptoms but only one cause: anoxia

2020-04-09

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During nearly 100 years of research on cancer cachexia (CC), science has been reciting the same mantra: it is a multifactorial syndrome. The aim of this paper is to show that the symptoms are many, but they have a single cause: anoxia. CC is a complex and devastating condition that affects a high proportion of advanced cancer patients. Unfortunately, it cannot be reversed by traditional nutritional support and it...

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4c33b6c2-12ac-5227-81b6-8321687c5e03
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10.12688/f1000research.22624.1
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