The silent symptom early satiety: a forerunner of distinct phenotypes of anorexia/cachexia syndromes

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Involuntary loss of appetite and weight are both common and complex clinical problems of patients with advanced cancer. As clinicians, we are confronted by patients’ affected enjoyment of life, debilitation, symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, early satiety, chronic nausea, and dyspnea as well as family concerns, but having pharmacological, nutritional, and behavioral interventions of limited effects. In this issue, Davis et al. provide a review about early satiety, which is a relative of, but not identical to, anorexia and chronic nausea [1]. The authors base their thoughts mainly on own data rooted in the collection of symptom checklist of 38 symptoms in 1,000 patients with advanced cancer referred to the Center for Palliative Medicine in Cleveland [2] and on the study of current literature. …