# OnCo record cachexia (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/cachexia/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "cachexia" ;
  schema:name "Cancer cachexia"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Cancer wasting"@en, "Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome"@en ;
  schema:description "Severe loss of weight and muscle in advanced cancer that eating more cannot reverse on its own. It affects up to eight in ten patients with advanced disease and contributes to a fifth of cancer deaths."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/cachexia/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6003455> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(10)70218-7>, <https://doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2018-0266>, <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-008-0505-z>, <https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12368>, <https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/information-and-support/managing-symptoms-and-side-effects/diet-and-pancreatic-cancer/>, <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-cancer/treatment/controlling-symptoms>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.00611>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2021.02.005>, <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/lung-cancer/living-with/coping-with-breathlessness>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng122/chapter/Palliative-interventions-and-supportive-and-palliative-care> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/gastric/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/cachexia-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/cachexia-appetite-pharmacotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/resistance-training-cachexia/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/oncology-nutrition/> ;
  onco:pathways <https://onco.cc/pathways/cachexia-biology/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/pancreatic-enzyme-replacement/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-cachexia-supportive/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-fearon-lancet-oncol/> ;
  onco:journals <https://onco.cc/journals/journal-of-cachexia-sarcopenia-and-muscle/> .