Nutritional status of children with cancer and hematological malignancies during treatment in FSBI Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev (screening results)

Abstract

The majority of children during treatment for cancer, have disorders of nutritional status associated both with the presence of main disease and antitumor therapy. This paper deals with the results of the screening study of nutritional status of patients in FSBI Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev on their primary admission to the Centre and during the treatment. It is shown that the part of the patients on the admission, or even before the special therapy, has disorders of nutritional status. We have determined the increase in the number of children with disorders of nutritional status over time and the persistence of somatic protein pool deficiency during the observation. The results show the necessity of adequate correction of nutritional status in this category of patients.

Keywords

• children
• malignant neoplasms
• nutritional status
• anthropometry