Effective against cachexia, a wasting syndrome characterized by loss of weight, muscle mass, and appetite.
From anti- (against) + cachectic, from Greek kakos (bad) + hexis (condition). Cachexia refers to the severe wasting seen in cancer, tuberculosis, and other chronic diseases.
Modern cancer research has found that anticachectic treatments—which fight the body's wasting rather than just the tumor—can dramatically improve quality of life, showing that fighting disease sometimes means fighting its side effects.
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