The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7268 p397
27 September 2003

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Cancer cachexia helped by ProSure

A nutritional supplement enriched with n-3 fatty acids (ProSure) may reverse weight loss in patients with cancer.

Compared with a high-protein formula with the same calories, both supplements stopped weight loss in 200 patients with pancreatic cancer but the enriched supplement showed a positive correlation between intake and increases in body weight and lean body mass (Gut 2003;52:1479).