cachexia

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"This discovery could have implications for cancer patients who experience cachexia, or muscle wasting due to the disease and its treatments."

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

Was all of this extra lactate actually causing cachexia?

From Science Magazine • Apr. 2, 2024

Several years earlier, other international forensics experts had already rejected the official cause of death as cachexia, or weakness and wasting of the body due to chronic illness — in his case, cancer.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

He had been suffering from prostate cancer and his death certificate said he died of "cancerous cachexia" - a wasting away caused by the disease.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2023

They may die of cachexia, or may develop an isolated abscess; but they do not present characteristic symptoms as they would under the action of Cantharis, of Phosphorus, or of Lead.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock