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A summary of the cachexia phenotype. Cachexia is induced during cancer by tumor burden and anticancer therapy, impacting a variety of tissues including skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, bone, brain, liver, and stomach. In these tissues, various structures and functions are deregulated, generating the cachectic phenotype. This figure was created using BioRender.com
