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How do you approach and manage anorexia and appetite loss in people with advanced cancer?

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Medical Oncology · University of Wisconsin

Anorexia/cachexia is often distressing to patients and families and it is this distress that is the target of many of the interventions for this syndrome as there are, in general, no effective therapies. Patients and families are routinely battling over the lack of eating as this causes further disc...

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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network

Medical marijuana, if available in your state, is an excellent tool for battling anorexia. Unfortunately, there isn’t much data to provide guidance in terms of composition and dosing because of the legal standing.

Horne, PMID 34479658

Razmovski-Naumovski et al., PMID 35360989

I’ve also found that i...

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Medical Oncology · Oncology Consultants

A low dose of zyprexa 2.5 mg po qd for 12 weeks also showed good effect.

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Radiation Oncology · Generations Radiotherapy and Oncology PC

Though nothing in this space is easy, a comparatively simple solution to improving calorie density is to encourage the use of “spreadables".

Full disclosure, I borrowed this expression from a colleague in eating disorders, but it makes sense for our patients too. Virtually, all spreadable foods (but...

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