Barr RD

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ABSTRACT

The nutritional status of children with cancer is clinically important and often compromised by the malignant disease and its treatment as well as pre-existing socio-economic disadvantage. Investigators in Mexico have played a prominent role over the past 20 years in exploring the relationship between diminished nutritional status and reduced prospects for survival. Mechanisms underlying this association remain incompletely resolved, but clear opportunities exist to undertake a national initiative in Mexico focused on this challenge and the related target of devising effective nutritional interventions to improve clinical outcomes. Such undertakings would consolidate the position of clinical nutritional research in Mexico within the vanguard of this scientific enterprise in pediatric oncology. This leadership is exemplified by the two international workshops on the topic convened in Puebla in 1997 and 2006, providing a firm foundation for further progress.

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