Search for: [Abstract = "According to the World Report on Cancer presented in 2003 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer \(IARC\) working inside the WHO, cancer caused the death of 6.2 millions of people in 2000. 5.3 millions of men and 4.7 millions of women suffered from malignant neoplasms. The speed of cancer development is so big that this number might be 50% bigger in 2020 leading to 15 millions of new cases \(1\). Malignant diseases comprise the second most frequent cause of deaths in Poland \(2\). Malnutrition is a phenomenon related to cancer diseases of digestive tract inseparably. Literature \(49,50\-54, 58,59,63,71,93,146,147\) shows that prevalence of malnutrition in patients admitted to hospitals is between 30 to 50%. Location of tumor in higher parts of the alimentary tract leads to faster development of hypoalimentation. Shike \(75\), Szczygiel \(76\) and Fraczek \(16\) agree that malnourished patients amount to 80% of all patients with esophagus cancer, 60% stomach cancer and 10 to 15% colon cancer. Malnutrition is diagnosed and treated very rarely though it comprises one of the factors responsible for frequent complications and longer hospitalization. Current research tendencies concentrate on the analysis of malnutrition effects in patients treated surgically and validity of introduction of nutritional therapy. The objective of this work was to evaluate nutrition status of patients with"]

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