Body Composition and Nutritional Status in Cancer Patients
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: body-composition; nutritional status; breast, pancreas and liver imaging; oncological imaging; AI and radiomics analysis from radiological imaging
2. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41124 Modena, Italy
Interests: computed tomography; magnetic resonance; diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; pancreatic cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, diagnostic imaging in cancer patients has become an important tool not only for providing diagnostic and follow-up information regarding cancer disease but also to know the body composition of the cancer patient. In particular, it is possible through CT and MR imaging to have quantitative and qualitative information regarding the muscle and adipose compartments (subcutaneous and visceral) and to define the presence of conditions such as sarcopenic obesity that may represent a risk factor of cancer diseases. Body composition seems to be important not only in the etiopathogenesis of cancer diseases but also in the development of cancer treatment toxicity and in the response to treatment. Therefore, knowing the body composition of the cancer patient and analyzing its variation during the course of the oncological treatment is very important to be able to introduce corrective actions, especially nutritional and physical, that can improve the body composition, favoring the response to treatments and reducing toxicity. This issue aims to collect information on body composition and its relationships with cancer disease, also welcoming new innovative analysis methods through radiomics and deep learning and to correlate body composition with nutritional aspects and interventions.
Dr. Annarita Pecchi
Dr. Giulia Besutti
Dr. Federico Piacentini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- body composition
- adipose tissue
- sarcopenic obesity
- oncological disease
- nutritional asset
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