Affiliation:
1. MERSİN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TIP FAKÜLTESİ, DAHİLİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, İÇ HASTALIKLARI ANABİLİM DALI, TIBBİ ONKOLOJİ BİLİM DALI
2. SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ADANA ŞEHİR SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ
Abstract
Aim: Lung cancer is currently the most common cancer in the world. Diagnosis is usually made at an advanced stage. For this reason, it is very critical to enhance the standard of life during the current limited lifespan. One of the factors that can change the average survival is weight loss. For this purpose, the Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002) of the population receiving lung cancer treatment in the hospital, blood biochemical and anthropometric measurements, and lung cancer malnutrition symptoms were targeted to explore the health status of lung cancer patients. Methods: This study was conducted on a total of 266 volunteers, 216 men and 50 women, aged 18 and over, who were diagnosed with lung cancer and admitted to Adana City Hospital Medical Oncology Clinic during the years 2020-2021. Results: Of the 266 patients included, 216 were men and 50 were women. The mean age was 61.7±10.5, and the median age was 62. There was a positive relationship between the risk of malnutrition in patients with BMI values below 20 (p