Updates in Gastro-Intestinal Cancer Related Malnutrition

The definition of Cancer (this is an aggressive disease that destroys the region of origin and can spread as metastasis or direct extension to other organ, causing multiple complications and progressive loss of organ function).The growth of the cancer affects nutritional status in most cases.[1] Gastro-esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor of the GIT, and surgical treatment remains the first-line of treatment.[2] Gastro esophageal cancer is still rare in Western countries, it consider fatal in the vast majority of cases.In the United States, an approximately 17000 new cases were diagnosed in 2015, of them 15000 cases were died from the disease.[3]