Marshall KM, et al. - In order to comprehend the prevention and management of malnutrition with regard to cancer care, researchers evaluated the clinical characteristics and trajectories relating to cancer malnutrition in Victoria, Australia at two time points (March 2012, May 2014). The recruitment comprised of adults with cancer receiving ambulatory chemotherapy, radiotherapy and multi-day inpatients. Findings demonstrated that older age, ≥5% weight loss, hospital admission and metastatic disease were factors prominently related to malnutrition. A comprehensive description was obtained of the cancer malnutrition prevalence representative of all treatment settings, tumour types and stages of the disease. Hence, valuable insights were gained into cancer malnutrition enabling oncology services for determining the opportunities to embed identification and prevention strategies into models of care. This would lead to improved patient outcomes and reduced health care costs.