A 56-year-old woman presented with anasarca, hypoalbuminaemia and hypotension following cycle 3 day 1 of adjuvant gemcitabine for stage II pancreatic cancer. Due to the temporal nature of presentation ...

This is not only due to the enlarged liver, but also due to ascites, presumably explained by hypoalbuminaemia and low oncotic pressure. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disease characterised by ...

Inflammatory cytokines promote angiogenesis and inhibit host immune responses when tumours develop or invade.38 39 Hypoalbuminaemia reflects poor liver function synthesis and may be caused by chronic ...