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What’s ‘cancer cachexia’ syndrome, a disease behind most patients’ death?
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) When tumours in cancer patients elevate levels of an immune system molecule called Interleukin-6 (IL-6), it can cause severe brain dysfunction, which leads to a lethal wasting disease called ‘cachexia’ in about 50 to 80 per cent of cancer patients, a new study said on Monday. As per US-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL) Professor Bo Li, “It’s a very severe syndrome”. “Most people with cancer die of ‘cachexia’ instead of cancer. And once the patient enters this stage, there’s no way to go back because essentially there’s no treatment,” he said in a study published in the journal Nature Communications. Li and other researchers in the team found that blocking

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