New study reveals disrupted brain-liver communication causes deadly cancer weight loss syndrome cachexia. Noninvasive vagus nerve treatment shows promise in mice, offering hope for improved cancer survival and care.

New study reveals disrupted brain-liver communication causes deadly cancer weight loss syndrome cachexia. Noninvasive vagus nerve treatment shows promise in mice, offering hope for improved cancer survival and care.

Cachexia is a serious illness where patients lose a lot of weight, including muscle and fat. It happens in about one-third of cancer deaths and is very common in cancers like pancreatic and lung cancer.

This condition weakens patients and makes it harder for them to respond to treatment, increasing the risk of dying.

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the US found that the problem starts when inflammation caused by cancer disrupts signals sent through the vagus nerve.

This nerve is important because it connects the brain and the liver and helps control how the liver works.

Source: Financialexpress