Primary and Secondary Outcomes
cancer
CANCER
The nutritional intervention in all the evaluated patients resulted in body composition maintenance assessed via bioimpedance analysis. Particularly, the BMI decreased in a non-significant manner; furthermore, the lean mass tended to increase after twelve weeks of treatment (Significantly, all patients improved their performance, which was measured using the stand-up test, especially those that received standard OS (control group); in contrast, the arm strength (determined via dynamometry) remained stable in all groups (Clinical comparison in patients with cancer and systemic treatment receiving nutritional supplements with standard hypercaloric, hyperproteic oral supplements versus leucine-enriched oral supplements. (Regarding the biochemical data, when all the patients were analyzed, only the prealbumin levels increased (Finally, the nutritional evaluation performed using echography showed that the muscle mass in the rectus femoris of the quadriceps remained stable after twelve weeks of treatment in all the patients (