Customised nutrition therapy in the treatment of Crohn's disease-related malignant bowel diseases
C Kömíves, A Molnár, M Varga, I Bíró, C Fejér, A Uhlyarik, N Szász, J Banai, P Sahin, L Topa · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2013 · Heft 05
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Introduction: Sarcopenia accompanying a malignant disease and exacerbated by chemotherapy intensifies the side effects and decreases the efficiency of treatment, thereby reducing life expectancy. Case description: We present the nutrition therapy of two young female patients (A and B) receiving chemotherapy for malignant tumours with different localisations (A: small intestine, B: large intestine) developed in connection with Crohn's disease (A: poorly differentiated small intestine neuroendocrine malignoma pT3(m)NxMO; B: colon adenocarcinoma pT3pN3M2, Dukes C2). Beyond chemotherapy, nutrition was complicated by…