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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. I mean, come on.

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