7 Tsuneto reported the incidence of physical symptoms in patients with terminal cancer over time and found an increasing trend in clinical symptoms such as general fatigue, anorexia, constipation, and insomnia beginning around 1 month of life expectancy. 2 In this study, anorexia accounted for the highest percentage of patients with ≥7 NRS points at 30.6% in the last month of life and remained high in the 30% range over time, indicating that patients with terminal cancer suffer from anorexia during their last month of life.
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