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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Clinical Trials Week Investigators discuss new findings in Stem Cell Research. According to news reporting originating from Lexington, Kentucky, by NewsRx correspondents, researchers stated "Numerous clinical trials have demonstrated that immunomodulating diets (IMDs) reduce treatment complications such as the risk of acquired infections, length of hospital stay, and wound complications in patients receiving planned surgery. These complications are possibly exacerbated by malnutrition at the time of surgery, resulting in decreased cell-mediated and humoral immune responses, which can be improved with the utilization of IMDs both prior to and following surgery."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research by the authors from the University of Kentucky, "Although numerous randomized studies have investigated IMDs in the surgical setting, IMDs have not been well studied to evaluate whether their use improves outcomes for other patient groups with high incidence of malnutrition and acquired infections. Patients receiving stem cell transplantation following preparative myeloablative chemotherapy for treatment of a hematologic malignancy would be a prime example of another patient group who would share these characteristics."

According to the news editors, the researchers concluded: "Given the proposed mechanism of action by which IMDs have aided recovery after surgery, it is reasonable to expect that IMDs may aid recovery after stem cell transplantation, and current preclinical and clinical data support the need for further clinical studies."

For more information on this research see: Immunonutrition: does it have a role in improving recovery in patients receiving a stem cell transplant? Nutrition and Cancer, 2012;64(4):503-7 (see also Stem Cell Research).

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A.D. Lye, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States.

Keywords for this news article include: Kentucky, Lexington, Malnutrition, United States, Stem Cell Research, Nutrition Disorders, North and Central America, Stem Cell Transplantation, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases.

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