Objective To observe the changes of serum resistin level in patients with gastriccancer associated-cachexia and to investigate the relationship between resistin and interleukin-6(IL-6).Methods Twenty-three cases of gastric cancer patients with cachexia were assigned to the cachexiagroup;23 cases of gastric cancer patients without cachexia were used as the gastric cancer group;and 23 healthy people were taken as normal controls. All the subjects were tested the sex,age,BMI and pathologicstages of cancer. The...