A multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for cancer cachexia improves quality of life
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Patients with cancer cachexia have severely impaired quality of life (QoL). Multidisciplinary, multimodal treatment approaches have potential for stabilising weight and correcting other features of this syndrome, but the impact on QoL is unknown. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of QoL in patients with advanced cancer, referred for the management of cachexia by a specialised multidisciplinary clinic (The McGill Cancer Nutrition Rehabilitation Program clinic at the Jewish General Hospital (CNR-JGH)). QoL was assessed at visits 1-3 using a dedicated QoL tool for cachexia, and the change in QoL was calculated for each patient. The correlation between clinical features and QoL at baseline and subsequent change in QoL was analysed, to determine what factors predict improvements in QoL during the CNR-JGH intervention. RESULTS: 374 patients assessed at visit 1 with mean weight loss of 10.2% over the preceding 6 months. Baseline QoL scores were severely impaired but clinically important improvements were observed over visits 1-3 to the CNR-JGH clinic. Improvements in QoL were not determined by baseline characteristics and were similar in all patient subgroups. However, those patients who gained weight and increased their 6 min walk test (6MWT) had the greatest improvements in QoL. CONCLUSIONS: Improving management of all facets of the cancer cachexia syndrome, including poor QoL, remains a priority. The multimodal approach to management of cancer cachexia offered by the CNR-JGH results in clinically important improvements in QoL. All patients who are able to receive this type of intervention have similar potential to improve their QoL, but the greatest benefits are seen in those who gain weight and improve their 6MWT.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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