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Weight loss in a patient with advanced cancer
AB is an 80 year old man who has metastatic cancer of the pancreas. He is 170 cm tall, and weighs 49 kg. He has lost 2 kg in body weight over the last 4 weeks - the condition of cancer cachexia.