Avoiding Malnutrition and Cachexia to Improve Patient Outcomes

Chairs 

J. Arends, DE - M. Muscaritoli, IT

Foreword

Malnutrition seriously impacts on clinical outcome in surgical and medical cancer patients. Prevention and early recognition and treatment are essential and require regular screening and professional assessment to detect relevant derangements limiting food intake, physical activity and anabolic potential. The pathophysiology of events is being increasingly understood and to improve optimal nutritional support appropriately tailored multiprofessional interventions are recommended. This refers to all settings of cancer care including pre-surgical prehabilitation, parallel support during radiation therapy and systemic anticancer treatment, as well as post-treatment rehabilitation. To enable cancer centers to offer these complex guideline-supported interventions, setting aside and guiding appropriate healthcare resources is essential and requires further emphasis.

Learning objectives

• To understand the pathophysiology and impact of malnutrition on clinical outcome and discern different options to detect and fight major causes of malnutrition, sarcopenia and cachexia
• To understand the differences between malnutrition, cachexia and sarcopenia and how they are imbricated and differentially diagnosed in cancer patients
• To learn from case discussions how to best implement nutrition assessment and choosing nutritional interventions
• To discuss essential reimbursement issues of nutritional therapy and the challenges of appropriately distributing required health care resources

Conference format

The conference was held online and free of charge, via OncoCorner platform.

Conference content

The event consisted of:

    1. On demand material

·        recorded presentations by Experts, available on the OncoCorner via https://www.oncocorner.net/online-events/31#desc;

·        four recorded patient cases, available on the OncoCorner via https://www.oncocorner.net/online-events/31#desc;

     2. Consecutive 2-day live sessions

During the live streaming of the event (12/13 November 2021) live and pre-recorded sessions were webcast and participants were able to discuss topics with the experts via chat.

All content was recorded. It will remain accessible via the OncoCorner platform until November 2022 (registration to access the online conference will remain open).

ORGANISING SECRETARIAT

Sharing Progress in Cancer Care
Via Vincenzo Vela, 6
6500 Bellinzona – Switzerland

Annalisa Musco
annalisa.musco@spcc.net - Tel: +39 331 6832686

CME Accreditation and Certificates
Application for CME recognition will be submitted to the Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ACOE). Information on the status of the application can be obtained from the organising secretariat.
Participants will be issued a certificate of attendance (minimum attendance: 75% of the entire course). An online evaluation questionnaire and learning assessment test will need to be completed in order to get the certificate that will be issued by email.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sharing Progress in Cancer Care wishes to extend its appreciation to Fresenius Kabi and Helsinn Healthcare SA for having granted their participation and support to the Conference.

Registration

Participation in the on demand conference is free of charge, but registration is required via https://www.oncocorner.net/online-events/31.

Jann Arends, University of Freiburg, Department of Medicine I, Medical Center, Freiburg, DE
Vickie Baracos, University of Alberta, Department of Oncology, Edmonton, CA
Rocco Barazzoni, University of Trieste, Department of Medical Sciences, Trieste, IT
Jacqueline Bowman, European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO), Brussels, BE
Egidio G. Del Fabbro, Chair of the Nutrition and Cachexia Study Group, MASCC and Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, US
Liat Deutsch, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, The Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver diseases, Tel Aviv, IL
Nicole Erickson, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, DE
Stefan Gijssels, Patient Expert, Overijse, BE
François Goldwasser, Medical Oncology Department, Cochin Port Royal Hospital, Laboratory URP 4466, Paris University, FR
Jane B. Hopkinson, Cardiff University, School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff, UK
Elisabeth Hütterer, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, AU
Alessandro Laviano, Sapienza Università di Roma, Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Roma, IT
Alessio Molfino, Sapienza Università di Roma, Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Roma, IT
Maurizio Muscaritoli, Sapienza Università di Roma, Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Rome, IT
Florian Strasser, Cancer Fatigue Clinic at Onkologie-Schaffhausen and Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, CH
Virpi Sulosaari, European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) and Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, FI
Ariane Vander Stappen, European Commission, DG SANTE - Unit E1 - Food information and composition, Brussels, BE
Arved Weimann, St. George Hospital, Department for General and Visceral Surgery and Clinical Nutrition, Leipzig, DE
Jean-Jacques Zambrowski, Health Policies & Health Economics, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, FR