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With the project the investigators propose, the investigators aim to find answers to the following questions: Are some cachectic factors and cytokines associated with plasma level irisin in patients with advanced stage cancer diagnosed with CACS? Could irisin be a new cachectic factor for patients with CACS? Can providing nutritional education to these patients slow cachexia and can a quality survival be achieved in line with the data obtained from the assessment of quality of life? and the experimental approaches to find answers to these questions make this project unique.


Clinical Trial Description

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of a group of cells in the body. Side effects related to cancer and treatments are one of the most difficult issues for patients and physicians. Cachexia is the second cause of cancer-related deaths after sepsis. Cachexia is a condition that progresses with weight loss in cancer patients and cannot be reversed with normal nutrition. In recent years, it has been found that cancer cachexia is associated with anorexia and has been named as cancer anorexia cachexia syndrome (CACS). Along with involuntary weight loss, appetite loss is observed in CACS patients and this decreases the quality of life. CACS is most common in people with advanced disease and the occurrence of the syndrome depends on the types of cancer. Weight loss is seen before starting treatment in 50-85% of gastrointestinal, pancreatic, lung and colorectal cancers. CACS is held responsible for 20% of cancer-related deaths. Despite these conditions, it is still considered unimportant and often incurable. The occurrence of CACS depends on many factors. It has not been fully clarified yet which biochemical mechanisms arise. In this process, cachectic factors released from tumor cells and causing muscle and fat atrophy are proteolysis inducing factor (PIF), Zinc-α-2 Glycoprotein (ZAG) and the proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), Interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6)), which are over-synthesized by the body, importance is known. However, the search for new and more precise agents to cause cachexia is still ongoing. Irisin, which causes weight loss, a newly discovered adipomyokine known to have antiinflammatory, antidiabetic, and antiobesity effects. With the project the investigators propose, the investigators aim to find answers to the following questions: Are some cachectic factors and cytokines associated with plasma level irisin in patients with advanced stage cancer diagnosed with CACS? Could irisin be a new cachectic factor for patients with CACS? Can providing nutritional education to these patients slow cachexia and can a quality survival be achieved in line with the data obtained from the assessment of quality of life? and the experimental approaches to find answers to these questions make this project unique. Within the scope of this project, firstly, irisin will be measured in plasma samples taken from 80 patients diagnosed with advanced cancer, who have been diagnosed with CACS together with some cachectic factors and cytokines. Randomly selected nutrition education to be given and not given patients, measurements of all determined parameters at plasma levels will be made again at specified time intervals (starting 12th week and 24th week). In addition, all patients during this process body weight, oral intake status, amount of food consumed in the last 24 hours, presence of nausea / vomiting, chewing and swallowing functions, body mass index (BMI-kg / m2), lean mass index (BMI-kg / m2), weight loss and comprehension performance status (CPS), routine biochemical tests and quality of life assessment scales will be done If our hypothesis is realized, possible biomarker specific to CACS has been identified,nutritional education will be answered for the first time within the scope of this project to slow down CACS and provide better quality of survival during the disease. In line with the data obtained from this project, in future projects, cachectic cancer model can be created for animals, irisin injection can slow down atrophy and cachexia, and thus, quality survival can be achieved in cancer types with high attenuation. With this work, the investigatorscreate fear in the society,affect people negatively,dragging people to the bottom with the attenuation,the investigators aim to improve the life expectancy of cancer patients, that is, to increase the quality of survival. ;


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NCT number NCT05262192
Study type Interventional
Source T.C. ORDU ÜNIVERSITESI
Contact Diler US ALTAY, Assoc. Prof.
Phone +904522265200
Email surelid@hotmail.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 1, 2022
Completion date January 1, 2023

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