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PARENTERAL NUTRITION AND TUMOUR GROWTH IN THE PATIENT WITH COMPLICATED ABDOMINAL CANCER
Author(s) -
Rice M. L.,
Ru A. M.van
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1987.tb01379.x
Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , cancer , chemotherapy , radiation therapy , cancer surgery , abdominal surgery , surgery , general surgery , intensive care medicine
Parenteral nutrition has been advocated as an important adjunct in the treatment of the patient with cancer undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However there is universal agreement that parenteral nutrition does not have a stimulatory effect on tumour growth. Four cases are reported, in complicated abdominal cancer involving only surgery, in which a claim that acceleration of tumour growth by parenteral nutrition can be made.