Grant: Network Catalyst - Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

Cancer patients experience malnutrition and wasting, a problem which is frequent, inadequately managed and remains a source of unnecessary suffering. There is a lack of new treatments or evidence to support a new standard of care. Although scientific understanding of malnutrition and wasting has made significant progress over the last decade, lack of a definition and criteria for diagnosis of nutritional risk has impeded progress both in clinical studies and clinical practice. To address these concerns, researchers in Palliative Care in Canada and Europe are seeking to develop a forum for international consensus on cancer -associated malnutrition and wasting.