Ângulo de fase e gravidade de doença no câncer de pulmão, cabeça e pescoço e colorretal

• DOI: 10.12957/rhupe.2015.17767
• Publication Date: 2015-07-30T11:12:10Z
• Authors: Mariana P. Miranda; Raquel Motta; Vanuza S. Do Vale; Daiane Spitz; Ivany A. Castanho
• Keywords: 2. Zero hunger; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; 3. Good health

Phase angle and disease severity in lung, head and neck and colorectal cancer Tumor cells’ differential mechanisms to get energy can be diverse, as occurs in certain tumors of high biological aggressiveness, causing varying degrees of impairment in nutritional status. For the identification of malnutrition, physical, dietary, social, subjective, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical functional parameters can be applied, providing information that will enable a better assessment of nutritional status (NS). Currently researches are using the Phase Angle (PA°) and the Standardized Phase Angle (SPA) as nutritional