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Vickie E. Baracos

Vickie E. Baracos

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2025

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Overview

Vickie E. Baracos is a researcher affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in medicine with a focus on physiology, oncology, surgery, geriatrics, and pediatrics.

The scientist's work primarily revolves around nutrition and health in aging, frailty in older adults, and body composition measurement techniques. Other main research topics include cancer survivorship and care, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, esophageal and gastrointestinal pathology, and biomarkers related to GDF15.

Baracos has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with significant frequent publications appearing in the following venues:

  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Nutrients

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Baracos include:

  • ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical Nutrition in cancer, 2021, Clinical Nutrition
  • Management of Cancer Cachexia: ASCO Guideline, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Association of Low Muscle Mass and Low Muscle Radiodensity With Morbidity and Mortality for Colon Cancer Surgery, 2020, JAMA Surgery
  • Evaluation of automated computed tomography segmentation to assess body composition and mortality associations in cancer patients, 2020, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Diagnostic criteria for cancer cachexia: reduced food intake and inflammation predict weight loss and survival in an international, multi-cohort analysis, 2021, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle

Frequent collaborators in Baracos's research include Vera C. Mazurak, Lisa Martin, Koji Amano, Aldo J. Montaño-Loza, and Abha R. Dunichand-Hoedl. These coauthors have contributed to multiple publications alongside Baracos.

Best Publications

  • Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus

    Kenneth Ch. Fearon;Florian Strasser;Stefan D. Anker;Ingvar Bosaeus

  • Prevalence and clinical implications of sarcopenic obesity in patients with solid tumours of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts: a population-based study.

    Carla M M Prado;Jessica R Lieffers;Linda J McCargar;Tony Reiman

  • ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients

    Jann Arends;Patrick Bachmann;Vickie Baracos;Nicole Barthelemy

  • Cachexia: a new definition.

    William J. Evans;John E. Morley;Josep Argilés;Connie Bales

  • Cancer cachexia in the age of obesity: skeletal muscle depletion is a powerful prognostic factor, independent of body mass index.

    Lisa Martin;Laura Birdsell;Neil MacDonald;Tony Reiman

  • A practical and precise approach to quantification of body composition in cancer patients using computed tomography images acquired during routine care

    Marina MourtzakisM. Mourtzakis;Carla M.M. PradoC.M.M. Prado;Jessica R. LieffersJ.R. Lieffers;Tony ReimanT. Reiman

  • Multiple types of skeletal muscle atrophy involve a common program of changes in gene expression

    Stewart H. Lecker;R. Thomas Jagoe;Alexander Gilbert;Marcelo Gomes

  • Cancer-associated cachexia

    Vickie E. Baracos;Lisa Martin;Murray Korc;Denis C. Guttridge

  • Sarcopenia With Limited Mobility: An International Consensus

    John E. Morley;Angela Marie Abbatecola;Josep M Argiles;Vickie Baracos

  • ESPEN expert group recommendations for action against cancer-related malnutrition.

    J. Arends;V. Baracos;H. Bertz;F. Bozzetti

  • Sarcopenia as a determinant of chemotherapy toxicity and time to tumor progression in metastatic breast cancer patients receiving capecitabine treatment.

    Carla M.M. Prado;Vickie E. Baracos;Linda J. McCargar;Tony Reiman

  • Understanding the mechanisms and treatment options in cancer cachexia

    Kenneth Fearon;Jann Arends;Vickie Baracos

  • Sarcopenia is associated with postoperative infection and delayed recovery from colorectal cancer resection surgery.

    J R Lieffers;O F Bathe;K Fassbender;M Winget;M Winget

  • Muscle Wasting Is Associated With Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis

    Aldo J. Montano–Loza;Judith Meza–Junco;Carla M.M. Prado;Jessica R. Lieffers

  • Diagnostic Criteria for the Classification of Cancer-Associated Weight Loss

    Lisa Martin;Pierre Senesse;Ioannis Gioulbasanis;Sami Antoun

  • Sarcopenia in an Overweight or Obese Patient Is an Adverse Prognostic Factor in Pancreatic Cancer

    Benjamin H.L. Tan;Laura A. Birdsell;Lisa Martin;Vickie E. Baracos

  • Measurement of skeletal muscle radiation attenuation and basis of its biological variation.

    J. Aubrey;N. Esfandiari;V. E. Baracos;F. A. Buteau

  • ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical nutrition in surgery

    Arved Weimann;Marco Braga;Franco Carli;Takashi Higashiguchi

  • Body composition as an independent determinant of 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy toxicity.

    Carla M.M. Prado;Vickie E. Baracos;Linda J. McCargar;Marina Mourtzakis

  • Tumour-derived PTH-related protein triggers adipose tissue browning and cancer cachexia

    Serkan Kir;James P. White;Sandra Kleiner;Lawrence Kazak

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth C. H. Fearon
Kenneth C. H. Fearon University of Edinburgh
Catherine J. Field
Catherine J. Field University of Alberta
Stein Kaasa
Stein Kaasa Oslo University Hospital
Eduardo Bruera
Eduardo Bruera The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Alfred L. Goldberg
Alfred L. Goldberg Harvard University
Claude Pichard
Claude Pichard Geneva College
Peter Fayers
Peter Fayers University of Aberdeen
Kerry S. Courneya
Kerry S. Courneya University of Alberta
John J. Kennelly
John J. Kennelly University of Alberta
Bette J. Caan
Bette J. Caan Kaiser Permanente

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