Parenteral Nutrition in Palliative Cancer Care: Detrimental, Futile, or Beneficial?
Palliative cancer care patients may live for a long time, deus gorras but malnutrition worsens the prognosis.Parenteral nutrition (PN) is suitable for replenishing a calorie deficit, but its advantages and tolerance late in the cancer trajectory are debated.We examined symptom development in hospitalized patients with and without PN.A total of 21 p