Cancer cachexia, a debilitating condition characterized by severe weight loss and muscle wasting, complicates the battle against cancer. Approximately half of all patients with cancer experience cachexia. This rate of occurrence rises to as high as 86% in the last 1–2 weeks of life, with 45% of patients losing more than 10% of their original body weight over disease progression.
Cancer cachexia impacts approximately 60% of the 1.4 million patients diagnosed with cancer in the United States each year. Additionally, the occurrence of cachexia varies across cancer types and ranges from 60% among lung cancer patients to about 80% among gastrointestinal cancer (pancreas...
