Psychological intervention

Intensive care medicine

Biology

Systemic inflammation

Sepsis

Psychiatry

Metabolic syndrome

Immunology

Cachexia

Bioinformatics

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Inflammation

Cancer cachexia

Internal medicine

Medicine

Obesity

Cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Cancer cachexia has long been perceived as a nutritional syndrome. However, nutritional interventions have continued to be ineffective. With the recent recognition of the importance of systemic inflammation in the definition of this syndrome and treatment, has the time come to consider whether this syndrome is primarily a manifestation of systemic inflammation with the consequent implications for future treatment?

Cancer cachexia: a nutritional or a systemic inflammatory syndrome?