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- Acute hospitalization of cancer community-based patients: a cross sectional look into identifying nutritional risk, status and functional compromise and a window onto nutritional perceptions and unmet needsPublication . Neto, Elisabete; Alves, Paula; Correia, Marta; Irving, SusanaBackground - Cancer-related malnutrition is prevalent. Moreover, nutritional status can be dynamic, resulting from a cumulative risk of deterioration, specially if multimodal treatments are proposed. Nowadays, due to treatment advances, more people living with cancer are being managed as community-based outpatients. Systematic nutritional risk identification should be conducted and established throughout the oncology care continuum. Objectives - To evaluate the nutritional risk and status, and functional compromise of cancer patients at an acute hospitalization timepoint. to capture participant’s nutritional perceptions and unmet needs whilst outpatients