Medical imaging in cancer cachexia.

Autor: Ko HS; Department of Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Hyun.ko@petermac.org.; The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Hyun.ko@petermac.org.; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Hyun.ko@petermac.org., Attenberger U; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) [Radiologie (Heidelb)] 2024 Nov; Vol. 64 (Suppl 1), pp. 10-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 12.
DOI: 10.1007/s00117-024-01346-5
Abstrakt: Cancer cachexia, often referred to as "wasting syndrome," is characterized by fatigue, weakness, and involuntary weight loss. This syndrome is concomitant with progressive skeletal muscle atrophy with or without adipose tissue loss and is frequently accompanied by systemic inflammation. Understanding the complexities of cancer cachexia is crucial for early detection and intervention, and it is also paramount for enhancing patient outcomes. Medical imaging, comprising diverse imaging modalities, plays a pivotal role in this context, facilitating the diagnosis and surveillance assessment of both the disease extent and the body composition changes that offer valuable information and insights into disease progression. This article provides a comprehensive discourse of the pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical manifestations of cancer cachexia as well as the role of medical imaging in this setting. Particular emphasis is placed on contemporary multidisciplinary and translational research efforts for the development of diagnostic and treatment tools, aiming to mitigate the devastating consequences of cancer cachexia.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Conflict of interest: U. Attenberger is a member of the Siemens Speaker Bureau and a member of the Bayer Advisory Board. H.S. Ko has no conflicts of interest. For this article no studies with human participants or animals were performed by any of the authors. All studies mentioned were in accordance with the ethical standards indicated in each case. The supplement containing this article is not sponsored by industry.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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