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The emotional aspects of cancer anorexia

Hopkinson, Jane B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3915-9815 2010. The emotional aspects of cancer anorexia. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care 4 (4) , pp. 254-258. 10.1097/SPC.0b013e32833ef813

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Abstract

Purpose of review: To discuss the psychosocial support of people affected by cancer anorexia, drawing on recent publications. Recent findings: Recent studies describe the problem of distress in response to cancer anorexia. There are propositions of appropriate support and calls for the development of psychosocial interventions to relieve cachexia-related distress. Preliminary work is now testing these ideas. Summary: Psychosocial support for cancer anorexia is a new and promising field of study. The prevention or alleviation of the anorexia of cachexia would relieve much eating-related suffering experienced by patients and their families. However, whilst the scientific community works to achieve this goal there is another task to be addressed: to help people with cancer anorexia to adapt and live with the symptom. Despite accounts over many years of the distress caused by poor appetite, little attention has been paid to the potential for psychosocial support to aid self-management of the symptom. Emergent thinking is that psychosocial support for cancer anorexia can have benefit for both patients and their family members.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Healthcare Sciences
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Uncontrolled Keywords: cachexia, cancer anorexia, psychosocial
Publisher: LWW
ISSN: 1751-4258
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2022 12:20
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9419

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