Cachexia and Wasting

Cachexia may well represent the flip side of the tremendous achievements of modern medicine.

Many diseases rapidly leading patients to death just a few years ago, are now better controlled by new therapies, and even if we cannot cure and eradicate them, their natural history has significantly increased by months and years. Although these new therapeutic strategies represent a remarkable advantage over the standards of care, it is impossible to ignore that many more patients are now facing the nutritional consequences of prolonged immunological and metabolic challenges deriving from ongoing diseases and aggressive therapies.

Aim of the volume, written by world-renowned scientists, is to provide the best available evidence on the pathogenesis, clinical features and therapeutic approach of cachexia, and to facilitate the understanding of the complex yet unequivocal clinical role of this syndrome, that truly represents a disease, or, better still, a disease within other different diseases.

• Diabetes
• HIV
• HIV infection
• aging
• assessment
• cancer
• depression
• geriatric oncology
• geriatrics
• infectious disease
• infectious diseases
• oncology
• pathophysiology
• physiology
• tissue
• metabolic disease

• Department of Medical Oncology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

  Giovanni Mantovani

• Department of Clinical Cardiology, Imperial College, NHLI, London, UK

  Stefan D. Anker

• Department of Cardiology Charité, Applied Cachexia Research, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

  Stefan D. Anker

• Department of Behavioral Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

  Akio Inui

• GRECC, VA Medical Center and Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA

  John E. Morley

• Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

  Filippo Rossi Fanelli

• Department of Infectious Diseases, IRCCS S.Matteo Polyclinic, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  Daniele Scevola

• Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Center for Lymphoma and Myeloma, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical Center, New York, USA

  Michael W. Schuster

• Department of Medicine-Geriatrics, University of New York at Stony Brook VAMC, Northport, USA

  Shing-Shing Yeh

Professor Mantovani is Full Professor of Medical Oncology and Chief of the Division and Laboratory of Medical Oncology at University of Cagliari, School of Medicine, Cagliari, Italy. His research interests include treatment of cancer-related anorexia/cachexia and oxidative stress, combined-modality therapy of human cancers and cancer immunotherapy. He is first author of more than 200 publications in top-rated cancer journals. Many colleagues from all over the world are acting as co-editors.

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