Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Tumors (NutriGIT)

University Medicine Greifswald

Status

Completed

Conditions

Oesophageal Cancer

Bile Duct Cancer

Gastric Cancer

Colon Cancer

Neuroendocrine Tumors

GIST, Malignant

Liver Cancer

Small Intestine Cancer

Rectal Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer

Treatments

Other: No intervention - observational study only

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04476082

BB 071/20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Malnutrition and loss of muscle mass frequently occur in patients undergoing chemotherapy and can negatively effect therapy outcome. Especially patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract are often affected by malnutrition. Therefore, this study aims to examine changes in nutritional status of patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract during chemotherapy. Findings of this study will help to improve nutritional treatment of patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Full description

Malnutrition and sarcopenia are common complications in patients with malignant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. During chemotherapy there is a high risk of further impairment of nutritional status due to anorexia, nausea, emesis and other gastrointestinal conditions that adversely impact food assimilation or absorption. Findings on changes of nutritional status during chemotherapy are scarce but of paramount importance for adequate nutrition therapy. Therefore, this study aims to provide a detailed description of changes in nutritional status of patients with a malignant condition of the gastrointestinal tract during chemotherapy.

Enrollment

66 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with initial diagnosis of a malignant condition of the gastrointestinal tract planned to receive cytostatic treatment.
ongoing cytostatic treatment of a known malignant condition of the gastrointestinal tract

Exclusion criteria