Anorexia and Cachexia
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cer, acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, and sarcomas have a low frequency of weight loss (31–40%) (16). This suggests that cachexia-inducing tumors may have an altered genetic expression that allows them to produce factors that degrade triglyceride stores in adipose tissue and myofibrillar proteins in skeletal muscle. Certainly cachexia bears no simple correlation to tumor burden, metastasis, or anatomic site of involvement. Cachexia can arise in a patient with a tumor comprising <0.01% of the host weight, although some large tumors do not produce cachexia.
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