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Nutrition in Clinical Practice
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*Dietary Fats
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Invited Reviews

{Omega}-3 Fatty Acid Supplements for Cancer-Associated Weight Loss

Aminah Jatoi, MD

Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Correspondence: Aminah Jatoi, MD, Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905-0002. Electronic mail may be sent to jatoi.aminah{at}mayo.edu.

{Omega}-3 fatty acids have been tested for the treatment of cancer anorexia/weight loss, a syndrome that predicts a poor prognosis among cancer patients with incurable disease. This review focuses on both the preclinical and clinical data of {omega}-3 fatty acids for treating this syndrome. Overall, the promise of the former does not seem to be borne out completely in the latter. This review includes a discussion of how these data might be interpreted and explained to cancer patients who are striving to cope with this syndrome.

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 20, No. 4, 394-399 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0115426505020004394
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