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List of works by Vickie E. Baracos

A comparison of Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity measures to predict colorectal cancer survival using administrative health data

scientific article

A panoply of anabolic and catabolic mediators

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

A practical and precise approach to quantification of body composition in cancer patients using computed tomography images acquired during routine care

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A proinflammatory tumor that activates protein degradation sensitizes rats to catabolic effects of endotoxin

scientific article published on 7 June 2005

A viscerally driven cachexia syndrome in patients with advanced colorectal cancer: contributions of organ and tumor mass to whole-body energy demands

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Advances in the science and application of body composition measurement

scientific article published on January 2012

An exploratory study of body composition as a determinant of epirubicin pharmacokinetics and toxicity.

scientific article published on 5 March 2010

An in vitro preparation of the extensor digitorum communis muscle from the chick (Gallus domesticus) for studies of protein turnover

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

An invitation to the 2nd Cancer Cachexia Conference, Montréal, Canada

scientific article

Anabolic and catabolic mediators of intestinal protein turnover: a new experimental approach

scientific article

Assessment of nutritional status in cancer--the relationship between body composition and pharmacokinetics

scientific article published on October 2013

Association of skeletal muscle wasting with treatment with sorafenib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma: results from a placebo-controlled study

scientific article published on 19 January 2010

Associations between physical activity and quality of life in cancer patients receiving palliative care: a pilot survey

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

Automated segmentation of muscle and adipose tissue on CT images for human body composition analysis

article

Baseline insulin-like growth factor-I plasma levels, systemic inflammation, weight loss and clinical outcome in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer patients

scientific article published on 4 October 2011

Baseline nutritional evaluation in metastatic lung cancer patients: Mini Nutritional Assessment versus weight loss history

scientific article published on 11 October 2010

Body composition and survival in the early clinical trials setting.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Body composition as an independent determinant of 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy toxicity

scientific article published in June 2007

Body composition in patients with non−small cell lung cancer: a contemporary view of cancer cachexia with the use of computed tomography image analysis

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Body composition variation and impact of low skeletal muscle mass in patients with advanced medullary thyroid carcinoma treated with vandetanib: results from a placebo-controlled study

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Body composition, symptoms, and survival in advanced cancer patients referred to a phase I service

scientific article

Cachexia in pancreatic cancer: new treatment options and measures of success

scientific article published on June 2010

Cachexia: a new definition

scientific article

Cancer cachexia in the age of obesity: skeletal muscle depletion is a powerful prognostic factor, independent of body mass index

scientific article

Cancer cachexia: a systematic literature review of items and domains associated with involuntary weight loss in cancer

scientific article published on 08 January 2011

Cancer-associated cachexia and underlying biological mechanisms

scientific article

Catch-up growth following Escherichia coli infection in weanling rats

scientific article published in February 1992

Central nervous system inflammation induces muscle atrophy via activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

scientific article published on 14 November 2011

Central tenet of cancer cachexia therapy: do patients with advanced cancer have exploitable anabolic potential?

scientific article

Characterization of Chemosensory Alterations in Advanced Cancer Reveals Specific Chemosensory Phenotypes Impacting Dietary Intake and Quality of Life

Chemosensory Dysfunction Is a Primary Factor in the Evolution of Declining Nutritional Status and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Clinical Trials of Cancer Cachexia Therapy, Now and Hereafter

scientific article published on February 25, 2013

Clinical determinants of weight loss in patients receiving radiation and chemoirradiation for head and neck cancer: a prospective longitudinal view

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Clinical outcomes related to muscle mass in humans with cancer and catabolic illnesses

scientific article published on June 29, 2013

Computational modeling of cancer cachexia

scientific article

Concurrent evolution of cancer cachexia and heart failure: bilateral effects exist.

scientific article

Consensus on cachexia definitions

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Correlates of objectively measured sedentary behavior in cancer patients with brain metastases: an application of the theory of planned behavior

scientific article

Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus

scientific article

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol may palliate altered chemosensory perception in cancer patients: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Determinants of physical activity in palliative cancer patients: an application of the theory of planned behavior

scientific article

Development and psychometric testing of the Adaptive Capacity Index, an instrument to measure adaptive capacity in individuals with advanced cancer

scientific article published on 18 February 2011

Dietary patterns of patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer

scientific article published in January 2012

Drug utilization review on a tertiary palliative care unit

scientific article published in May 2006

Dénutrition en cancérologie : quand demander un avis spécialisé ?

journal article from 'Bulletin du Cancer' published in 2009

Effect of Escherichia coli infection on growth and protein metabolism in broiler chicks (Gallus domesticus).

scientific article

Effects of exercise training on antitumor efficacy of doxorubicin in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer xenografts.

scientific article published on September 2005

Effects of sample size on differential gene expression, rank order and prediction accuracy of a gene signature

scientific article

Evaluation of the clinical relevance of body composition parameters in patients with cancer metastatic to the liver treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy

scientific article published on 09 January 2012

Evolving classification systems for cancer cachexia: ready for clinical practice?

scientific article published on March 2010

Expression and activity of matrix metallo proteinases 2 and 9 and their inhibitors in rat lungs during the perinatal period and in diaphragmatic hernia

scientific article published in June 2003

FEM-based automatic segmentation of muscle and fat tissues from thoracic CT images

Functional body composition and related aspects in research on obesity and cachexia: report on the 12th Stock Conference held on 6 and 7 September 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

scientific article

Glutamine supplementation influences immune development in the newly weaned piglet

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Home-based functional walking program for advanced cancer patients receiving palliative care: a case series

scientific article

Hypercatabolism and hypermetabolism in wasting states

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin resistance in skeletal muscles of adult and old rats

scientific article published on 01 March 1994

Irinotecan (CPT-11) chemotherapy alters intestinal microbiota in tumour bearing rats

scientific article

Is there a genetic cause of appetite loss?-an explorative study in 1,853 cancer patients

scientific article

Is there a human homologue to the murine proteolysis-inducing factor?

scientific article

Loss of adipose tissue and plasma phospholipids: Relationship to survival in advanced cancer patients

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Low body mass index and sarcopenia associated with dose-limiting toxicity of sorafenib in patients with renal cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Low skeletal muscle is associated with toxicity in patients included in phase I trials

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

MAFbx/Atrogin-1 expression is a poor index of muscle proteolysis

article published in 2010

Malnutrition assessment in patients with cancers of the head and neck: a call to action and consensus

scientific article published on 04 July 2013

Measurement of skeletal muscle radiation attenuation and basis of its biological variation

scientific article

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and biochemical markers of cachexia in metastatic lung cancer patients: Interrelations and associations with prognosis

Multiple types of skeletal muscle atrophy involve a common program of changes in gene expression

scientific journal article

Muscle Wasting Is Associated With Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis

scientific article published on 03 September 2011

Muscle wasting

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Muscle wasting in cancer cachexia: clinical implications, diagnosis, and emerging treatment strategies

scientific article published on January 2011

Negative impact of cancer chemotherapy on protein metabolism in healthy and tumor-bearing rats

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio predicts chemotherapy outcomes in patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

scientific article

Nutrition impact symptoms in a population cohort of head and neck cancer patients: multivariate regression analysis of symptoms on oral intake, weight loss and survival

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Nutrition impact symptoms: key determinants of reduced dietary intake, weight loss, and reduced functional capacity of patients with head and neck cancer before treatment

scientific article published in March 2010

Nutrition modulation of gastrointestinal toxicity related to cancer chemotherapy: from preclinical findings to clinical strategy

scientific article published on January 2011

Nutritional intervention with fish oil provides a benefit over standard of care for weight and skeletal muscle mass in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy

scientific article

Nutritional modulation of antitumor efficacy and diarrhea toxicity related to irinotecan chemotherapy in rats bearing the ward colon tumor

scientific article

Nutritional status, cachexia and survival in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma. Different assessment criteria for nutritional status provide unequal results

scientific article

Ornithine α-ketoglutarate limits muscle protein breakdown without stimulating tumor growth in rats bearing Yoshida ascites hepatoma

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

P-selectin genotype is associated with the development of cancer cachexia

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Parenteral nutrition in advanced cancer: indications and clinical practice guidelines

scientific article

Physical activity interests and preferences in palliative cancer patients

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Pitfalls in defining and quantifying cachexia

scientific article published on 10 June 2011

Plasma and neutrophil fatty acid composition in advanced cancer patients and response to fish oil supplementation.

scientific article published on December 2002

Poor Physical Function as a Marker of Sarcopenic Obesity in Adults with Class II/III Obesity

scholarly article published 18 December 2017

Prediction of skeletal muscle and fat mass in patients with advanced cancer using a metabolomic approach

scientific article published on 7 December 2011

Prevalence and clinical implications of sarcopenic obesity in patients with solid tumours of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts: a population-based study

scientific article published on 06 June 2008

Prognostic factors in patients with advanced cancer: use of the patient-generated subjective global assessment in survival prediction

scientific article published on 30 August 2010

Prophylactic ciprofloxacin treatment prevented high mortality, and modified systemic and intestinal immune function in tumour-bearing rats receiving dose-intensive CPT-11 chemotherapy

scientific journal article

Protein Metabolism in Cachectic Tumor-Bearing Rats: Effect of Tumor Excision

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Rates of ubiquitin conjugation increase when muscles atrophy, largely through activation of the N-end rule pathway

scientific article published on October 1998

Reduced splenocyte metabolism and immune function in rats implanted with the Morris hepatoma 7777

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Reframing eating during chemotherapy in cancer patients with chemosensory alterations.

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Regulation of protein catabolism by muscle-specific and cytokine-inducible ubiquitin ligase E3alpha-II during cancer cachexia

scientific article

Regulation of skeletal-muscle-protein turnover in cancer-associated cachexia

scientific article

Sarcopenia and physical function in overweight patients with advanced cancer.

scientific article

Sarcopenia as a Prognostic Index of Nutritional Status in Concurrent Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Sarcopenia as a determinant of chemotherapy toxicity and time to tumor progression in metastatic breast cancer patients receiving capecitabine treatment

scientific article

Sarcopenia etymology: Sarcos (flesh) penia (poverty) i.e. absence, lack or deficiency of a body constituent

scientific article published in 2024

Sarcopenia in an Overweight or Obese Patient Is an Adverse Prognostic Factor in Pancreatic Cancer

scientific article published on 03 November 2009

Sarcopenia is a predictor of outcomes in very elderly patients undergoing emergency surgery

scientific article published on 12 June 2014

Sarcopenia is associated with postoperative infection and delayed recovery from colorectal cancer resection surgery

scientific article published on August 7, 2012

Sarcopenia with limited mobility: an international consensus

scientific article

Severe muscle depletion in patients on the liver transplant wait list: Its prevalence and independent prognostic value

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Severe muscle depletion predicts postoperative length of stay but is not associated with survival after liver transplantation

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Shifting to conscious control: psychosocial and dietary management of anorexia by patients with advanced cancer

scientific article published in April 2007

Single and combined supplementation of glutamine and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on host tolerance and tumour response to 7-ethyl-10-[4-(1-piperidino)-1-piperidino]carbonyloxy-camptothecin (CPT-11)/5-fluorouracil chemotherapy in rats bearing War

scientific article published on 2 March 2009

Skeletal muscle anabolism in patients with advanced cancer

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Skeletal muscle anabolism is a side effect of therapy with the MEK inhibitor: selumetinib in patients with cholangiocarcinoma

scientific article

Skeletal muscle density predicts prognosis in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with targeted therapies

scientific article

Skeletal muscle protein mobilization during the progression of lactation

scientific article published on 26 October 2004

Supplementation with fish oil increases first-line chemotherapy efficacy in patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Survival

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Synthesis and evaluation of 1,5-diaryl-substituted tetrazoles as novel selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors

scientific article published on 21 January 2011

Synthesis and evaluation of fluorobenzoylated di- and tripeptides as inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

The advantages and limitations of cross-sectional body composition analysis

scientific article published on December 2011

The association between body composition and toxicities from the combination of Doxil and trabectedin in patients with advanced relapsed ovarian cancer

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

The association of nutritional assessment criteria with health-related quality of life in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

The dermcidin gene in cancer: role in cachexia, carcinogenesis and tumour cell survival

scientific article published on May 2008

The emerging role of computerized tomography in assessing cancer cachexia

scientific article published on December 2009

The head and neck symptom checklist©: an instrument to evaluate nutrition impact symptoms effect on energy intake and weight loss

scientific article published on 14 July 2013

The management of anorexia by patients with advanced cancer: a critical review of the literature

scientific article published on September 2006

The nutrition swing

scientific article

The proteolysis-inducing factor: in search of its clinical relevance in patients with metastatic gastric/esophageal cancer

scientific article published in January 2006

The role of intestinal microbiota in development of irinotecan toxicity and in toxicity reduction through dietary fibres in rats

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Too little or too much are inadequate

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Tumour-derived PTH-related protein triggers adipose tissue browning and cancer cachexia

scientific article published on 13 July 2014

Two faces of drug therapy in cancer: drug-related lean tissue loss and its adverse consequences to survival and toxicity

scientific article published on May 2011

USP19 is a ubiquitin-specific protease regulated in rat skeletal muscle during catabolic states

scientific journal article

Understanding and managing cancer cachexia

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Understanding the mechanisms and treatment options in cancer cachexia

scientific article published on 04 December 2012

Would you buy a new tool to improve your practice?

n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids throughout the cancer trajectory: influence on disease incidence, progression, response to therapy and cancer-associated cachexia.

scientific article published on December 2004