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Influence from genetic variability on opioid use for cancer pain: A European genetic association study of 2294 cancer pain patients

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Low body mass index and sarcopenia associated with dose-limiting toxicity of sorafenib in patients with renal cell carcinoma

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Consensus definition of sarcopenia, cachexia and pre-cachexia: Joint document elaborated by Special Interest Groups (SIG) “cachexia-anorexia in chronic wasting diseases” and “nutrition in geriatrics”

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Candidate gene association studies: successes and failures

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Using transcriptomics to identify and validate novel biomarkers of human skeletal muscle cancer cachexia

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Cancer cachexia is associated with the IL10 −1082 gene promoter polymorphism in patients with gastroesophageal malignancy

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Association of Interleukin-8 with Cachexia from Patients with Low-Third Gastric Cancer

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Association of Interleukin-8 Gene Polymorphism With Cachexia From Patients With Gastric Cancer

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Cachexia: A new definition

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Cancer cachexia: Developing multimodal therapy for a multidimensional problem

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Defining and Classifying Cancer Cachexia: A Proposal by the SCRINIO Working Group

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