PRECANCER FACTORS AND OUTCOMES OF WEIGHT LOSS IN ADULTS WITH LUNG CANCER.
Contributors: University of Rochester.
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Nutrition.
Description: This descriptive, correlational study examined the relationships of precancer factors, including gender, age, usual weight, and tobacco use, with cancer-related weight loss, energy intake, and resting energy expenditure (REE/BCM). It also explored physical and psychosocial functional outcomes of cancer-related weight loss. Data were collected from medical records, the Sickness Impact Profile, the monopolar Profile of Mood States, the Karnofsky Performance Status, interviews, and self-report diet records. Measurement of resting energy expenditure and body cell mass were by indirect calorimetry and by $\sp4□0K□$ counting, respectively.

A convenience sample of adults, 21 males and 11 females, with nonsmall cell lung cancer, stages I-IV, who were at least one month post-radiotherapy were recruited. Mean age was 64 years, and 91% were white. Mean weight loss at diagnosis was 1.75 kg and at 6 weeks post-radiotherapy was 6.13 kg. Mean energy intake was 2113 kcal ranging from 560 to 3997 kcal. Mean REE/BCM was 52.1 kcal/kg/day. Medical record data were obtained on 41 individuals who refused or were too sick to participate. This group was comparable to the sample.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06, Section: B, page: 2989.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, 1991.

School code: 0188.