# ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical Nutrition in cancer

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## TL;DR

Paper cited by three technology pages and two term pages, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 33946039 and published in Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland); the citing pages link this DOI, which is how the record was matched.

## Summary

Background: This practical guideline is based on the current scientific ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients.

Methods: ESPEN guidelines have been shortened and transformed into flow charts for easier use in clinical practice. The practical guideline is dedicated to all professionals including physicians, dieticians, nutritionists and nurses working with patients with cancer.

Results: A total of 43 recommendations are presented with short commentaries for the nutritional and metabolic management of patients with neoplastic diseases. The disease-related recommendations are preceded by general recommendations on the diagnostics of nutritional status in cancer patients.

Conclusion: This practical guideline gives guidance to health care providers involved in the management of cancer patients to offer optimal nutritional care.

Indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 33946039 (DOI 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.02.005). Matched by DOI alone: three technology pages and two term pages cite this DOI among their external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: europepmc-ingest
- Journal: Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.02.005
- Authors: Muscaritoli M, Arends J, Bachmann P, et al.
- What it means: Three technology pages and two term pages on OnCo cite this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing pages listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
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## Sources

- Clin Nutr 2021: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2021.02.005
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33946039/
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/33946039

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