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Position statement recommendations:

All people with cancer should be screened for malnutrition in all healthcare settings at diagnosis and repeated as the clinical situation changes, using a screening tool that is valid and reliable in the setting in which it is intended.

 

All people with cancer should be screened for sarcopenia at diagnosis and repeated as the clinical situation changes, using the validated screening tool SARC-F or SARC-F in combination with calf-circumference.

 

Please refer to the position statement for more detail regarding the above recommendations.

The links below are for easy access to resources, but you will need to refer to the screening section of the Toolkit PDF document for details of who, when, when and how to use them.

Which screening tools to use

Malnutrition

Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST)
Printable PDF
Online interactive MST
Publication

Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
Printable PDF
Online MUST calculator
Publication

Malnutrition Screening Tool for Cancer Patients (MSCT)
Publication

Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment short form (PG-SGA SF)
Printable PDF
Online PG-SGA
Publication

Sarcopenia

Strength, Ambulation, Rising from a chair, stair Climbing and history of Falling (SARC-F)
Printable PDF
Publication

SARC-F in combination with calf-circumference (SARC-CalF)
Printable PDF
Publication

Exemplars of evidence-based care in practice

Raising awareness of malnutrition and sarcopenia in your organisation
Incorporating malnutrition or sarcopenia screening into existing supportive care screening processes
Improving your model of care to ensure timely identification of sarcopenia
Implementing self-screening for malnutrition risk
Improving completion rates for malnutrition screening
What is the role of oncologists and surgeons?

 Patient case studies

Case study 1 - prehabilitation 
Case study 2 - haematology inpatient