en public specific orginal article <div style="text-align: justify;">Considering the incidence of malnutrition, a multidisciplinary approach with targeted nutrition is vital to improve the quality of care in cancer patients. This study aimed to investigate the overall nutritional status of Iranian cancer patients. <strong>Methods:</strong> This cross-sectional study in 70 cancer patients was conducted in Shohada-e Tajrish Hospital from February to April 2019. The cancer patients were assessed by demographics and Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) utilized as a common tool to evaluate the nutritional status of patients with different types of cancer. <strong>Results:</strong> Overall, 20.0% and 70.0% of the patients had normal body mass index (BMI) and overweight/obese, respectively.&nbsp; Moreover, 30.0% and 60.0% of the participants reported poor and normal intake, respectively. Males were more affected by malnutrition. Approximately 8.0% of the participants lost more than 10.0% of their weight; however, a vast majority of the patients maintained their weight. <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The high prevalence of malnutrition among the studied cancer patients demonstrated the necessity of nutritional care to improve possible malnutrition for better treatment results.</div> 11 21 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-36-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Farnaz Roshanmehr 0000-0002-4552-9739 No Laboratory of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Masaharu Kagawa 0000-0002-3842-7160 No Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan. Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary 0000-0002-6195-2203 No Department of Clinical Oncology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ali Milani-Bonab 0000-0002-2126-1555 No Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Research Department, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Arezoo Haghighian-Roudsari ahaghighian@yahoo.com 0000-0001-7908-6991 Yes Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran