Cancer cachexia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.

@article{Sadeghi2018CancerCD,
  title={Cancer cachexia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.},
  author={Mohammad Bagher Sadeghi and Mahsa Keshavarz-Fathi and Vickie E. Baracos and Jann Arends and Maryam Mahmoudi and Nima Rezaei},
  journal={Critical reviews in oncology/hematology},
  year={2018},
  volume={127},
  pages={
          91-104
        }
}
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