cachexia
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"This discovery could have implications for cancer patients who experience cachexia, or muscle wasting due to the disease and its treatments."
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
So, she says, it would be a “very particular situation” where a patient would have high lactate in the blood long enough to cause cachexia.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
Several years earlier, other international forensics experts had already rejected the official cause of death as cachexia, or weakness and wasting of the body due to chronic illness — in his case, cancer.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
He had been suffering from prostate cancer and his death certificate said he died of "cancerous cachexia" - a wasting away caused by the disease.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023
The causes of death he would place in the following order: gradual cardiac failure; uremia; apoplexy; some complicating acute infection; angina pectoris; accidental causes; acute edema of the lungs and cachexia.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
