Preoperative Nutritional Support in Malnutritional Cancer Patients

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Biopsy, drainage tube insertion, and other minor surgery
• •2. palliative surgery
• •3. Serious illness or medical conditions, as follows;
• •1. congestive heart failure (NYHA class III or IV)
• •2. unstable angina or myocardial infarction within the past 6 months,
• •3. significant arrhythmias requiring medication and conduction abnormality such as over 2nd degree AV block
• •4. uncontrolled hypertension
• •5. hepatic cirrhosis( ≥ Child class B)
• •6. interstitial pneumonia, pulmonary adenomatosis
• •7. psychiatric disorder that may interfere with and/or protocol compliance
• •8. unstable diabetes mellitus
• •9. uncontrolled ascites or pleural effusion
• •10. active infection
• •4. Pregnancy
• •5. Any patients judged by the investigator to be unfit to participate in the study