A study to investigate the incidence of early satiety in patients with advanced cancer

Components of the anorexia–cachexia syndrome: gastrointestinal symptom correlates of cancer anorexia

“…Early satiety, chronic nausea, and food aversions are all appetite-related sensations (and perhaps also misinterpreted as anorexia by some clinicians), but are different experiences as related by patients. Usual descriptors used in some questionnaires such as lack of hunger or a sense of fullness do not necessarily measure the same perception [1,35,41].…”

Effect of low-protein diet on anthracycline pharmacokinetics and cardiotoxicity

“…This pattern of weight loss differs from simple starvation seen in otherwise healthy patients, in which loss of body fat with sparing of skeletal muscle occurs [6] . The frequency of moderate to sever cancer cachexia varies from 15% to 40% at the initial presentation of cancer and occurs in 40–60% of patients [7] . Protein malnutrition has been associated with a decreased quality of life, considerable morbidity and mortality, reduced response to chemotherapy and an increased risk of chemotherapy‐induced adverse effects and toxicity [8] .…”

Early satiety in cancer patients: a common and important but underrecognized symptom

“…Early satiety may also be associated with affective changes (unlike those with cancer anorexia but without early satiety) [4]. Most patients with early satiety complain of anorexia, yet when fasted, they become hungry like normal individuals [5].…”

“…Perception of satiety is based in part upon the amount eaten rather than the hunger experienced [5].…”