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A Poorer Nutritional Status Impacts Quality of Life in a Sample Population of Elderly Cancer Patients

2020-08-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Rationale</bold>: Quality of Life (QoL) is impaired in cancer, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition. A diagnosis of cancer in elderly patients further exacerbate risks of negative health outcomes. Here we investigated associations between QoL and nutritional status in a sample population of mostly socially deprived elderly cancer patients.<bold>Method</bold>...

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Literature Corpus work: 850640af-7751-592d-9d33-e65df08bf81e
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-51751/v1

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