This year, the 14th international SCWD Conference on Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle Wasting with support of Charité University.
Society Activities
Recent Projects include:
• International conferences
• Consensus workshops
• The Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (JCSM)
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Latest Pubmed “Cachexia” article feed
- Rare case of diabetic neuropathic cachexia along with diabetic amyotrophy
- Biomarkers for Cancer Cachexia: A Mini Review
- Lipocalin 2 mediates appetite suppression during pancreatic cancer cachexia
- Cachexia as Evidence of the Mechanisms of Resistance and Tolerance during the Evolution of Cancer Disease
- Differential Diagnosis of Cachexia and Refractory Cachexia and the Impact of Appropriate Nutritional Intervention for Cachexia on Survival in Terminal Cancer Patients
- The impact of cachexia and sarcopenia in elderly pancreatic cancer patients receiving palliative chemotherapy
- Nutritional medical therapy in cachexia patient with oesophageal adenocarcinoma metastases on dexamethasone therapy: A case report
- Exercise for cancer cachexia in adults
- Diet-related interventions for cancer-associated cachexia
- Sarcopenia, Malnutrition, and Cachexia: Adapting Definitions and Terminology of Nutritional Disorders in Older People with Cancer
Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle Wasting: Definition
INTERVIEWS
Dr A Schols – towards a multi-modal intervention strategy in cachexia treatment
Dr John Morley discuses recent sarcopenia definitions
Prof Muscaritoli on the Premio study and cachexia prevalence in patients with cancer
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13th annual conference
“Save the Date”. The 2020 SCWD Cachexia Conference will take place Congress online 11-13 December
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About the SCWD society
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Research and education in cachexia, …
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Overview of wasting disorders
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Definitions of cachexia and sarcopenia
View recent definitions from the literature together with videos on how to define cachexia and sarcopenia.