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Weight loss in a patient with advanced cancer

Objectives

By the end of this exercise you should be able to:

Calculate a person's energy deficit from his / her weight loss

Calculate a person's BMR from resting oxygen consumption

Explain why BMR is elevated in cancer cachexia and explain what is meant by the term hypermetabolism

Describe the energy-expensive metabolic cycling between anaerobic glycolysis in the tumour and gluconeogenesis in the liver