Many people with cancer experience dramatic loss of muscle and fat tissue. In many cases, even the heart muscle is affected, ...

Many people with cancer experience dramatic loss of muscle and fat tissue. In many cases, even the heart muscle is affected, which further weakens the body.

Many people with cancer experience dramatic loss of muscle and fat tissue. In many cases, even the heart muscle is affected, which further weakens the body. This wasting syndrome, known as cachexia, ...

When researchers used a gene therapy to restore blood vessel health by counteracting the effects of Activin-A, they were able to prevent muscle loss.

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding ...

The Silenced Clock GeneIn cachexia, liver metabolism is fundamentally reprogrammed. One gene, which normally regulates the liver's activity throughout ...

A study found that tumours can impair blood vessel function in muscles, leading to severe muscle weakness in cancer patients.

Conclusions: UT cancer cachexia staging system represents a novel staging system which should be validated on a larger data set. Once validated this can help guide clinical management as well as ...