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Cachexia
Cancer cachexia is a syndrome of weight loss, muscle atrophy, fatigue, weakness, and significant loss of appetite in someone who is not actively trying to lose weight.
Dr. John Geisler reviewed this
29 year experience in Gynecologic Oncology
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A 75-year old male asked:
How is cachexia corrected?
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A 58-year old male asked about a 82-year old female:
What is the prognosis of cachexia?
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A 35-year old asked:
Why are some people with pneumonia at risk for cachexia?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Difference between anorexia and cachexia?
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A 44-year old asked:
Cachexia is a condition in which so few calories are consumed that even fat is used up, right?
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A 37-year old female asked:
What could (HCC)mean after a persons health condition,example-Cachexia(HCC) or Pancytopenia(HCC)?
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A 37-year old female asked:
What is Cachexia when shown on a persons diagnosed health issue's with health provider(CMS/HCC)possibly be/mean?
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A 41-year old asked:
What are factors contributing to cancer cachexia?
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A 40-year old asked:
I was diagnosed with cachexia and I smoked some marijuana. Whould that help appetite?
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A 48-year old asked:
How can heart failure lead to cachexia?
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A 48-year old asked:
When cachexia from emphysema causes emaciation, what can be done?
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A 35-year old female asked:
I would just like some advice for someone showing early signs of cancer related cachexia please. ?
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A 75-year old male asked:
How is cachexia corrected in prostate cancer?
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A 43-year old asked:
Is there any treatment for cachexia for a patient on a feeding tube?
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A 29-year old male asked:
If I had cancer cachexia would I be able to play basketball and work out?
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A 33-year old female asked about a 65-year old male:
What food will help in combating cachexia caused by lung cancer? what else should be done?
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A 31-year old male asked:
Does cachexia reduce muscle everywhere simultaneously or would 1 body part shrink&then another, etc? Losing shoulder mass despite weights&high protein
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A 40-year old female asked:
How fast does cachexia in someone with non small cell lung cancer advance to refractory stage and can it be reversed ?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Would I know if I had cancer cachexia? I've lost a couple of pounds and feel like I have no muscles, especially in my upper arms. I'm thin.
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A 40-year old female asked:
Mum has lung cancer tumor no change in size and her weight as gone down to 6 stone from 8 stone in 3 mth is this refactory cachexia?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Mom has advanced ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2006. What is the best solution for cancer cachexia? Megestrol acetate is not helping, nor protein food
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A 34-year old female asked:
I've lost weight and also muscle tone. My arms fatigue easily. How would I know the difference between sarcopenia from inactivity and cancer cachexia?
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A 54-year old male asked:
I take serostim (human growth hormone) injections for cachexia, my major compaint is joint pain, what can be done about the side affects.?
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A 48-year old asked:
What does cachectic really mean? Is someone dying?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Why do people with congestive heart failure become cachectic?
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A 26-year old female asked:
She appears cachectic & had wasting of her right APB, with reduced power Rt finger abduction, as well as in her in left hip flexion. Her tone was normal, reflexes were depressed and absent in the ankles with downgoing plantars what does this mean??
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A 26-year old female asked:
I had an EMG&NCS, with wasting in right hand APB and arm, weakness in rightside, cachectic, Neuro called and said it might be small cancer but which one? 26yo F, epileptic controlled since 2009?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Am I dying?
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Am I dying?
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A 37-year old female asked:
Im a nurse?
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