Updates in Gastro-Intestinal Cancer Related Malnutrition

Abstract

The definition of Cancer (this is an aggressive disease that destroys the region of origin and can spread as metastasis or direct extension to other organ, causing multiple complications and progressive loss of organ function). The growth of the cancer affects nutritional status in most cases. [1] Gastro-esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor of the GIT, and surgical treatment remains the first-line of treatment. [2]