William C. Faquin

1 month ago | acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bryn Nelson |William C. Faquin

Physicians have long observed that patients who have cancer and are also malnourished are more likely to die. Beyond making treatments less effective and more toxic, malnutrition can reduce a patient’s functional abilities and quality of life while increasing the risk of complications. For many decades, however, the surprisingly common and largely unresolved phenomenon of malnutrition in patients with cancer was seen as an inevitability.

Jan 20, 2025 | acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bryn Nelson |William C. Faquin

In 2023, the United States set a record for organ transplants, with more than 46,00 transplants performed with organs procured from more than 16,000 deceased donors and nearly 7000 living ones.1 With this encouraging trend reported by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), though, experts have stressed that the lifesaving operations can carry a tradeoff.