Cancer Treatment and Health Care

Nutrition is one of the most important aspects of oncology patients, both for its impact as meaning: almost 90% of patients with advanced malignancies have a significant weight loss, and on the other hand, studies indicate that the state Nutrition is a prognostic indicator of survival. Inadequate nutrition begins even at the time of diagnosis because the psychological impact that this implies, negatively inicide food intake. In addition, some anti-tumor treatments, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, leaving many patients in an extremely unfavorable nutritional status.

This malnutrition is exacerbated by the constitutional box that accompanies these processes such as anorexia (loss of appetite), cachexia (weight loss and muscle mass) and early satiety. Poor nutrition contributes to increase the incidence and severity of adverse effects of treatment, thereby increasing the risk of infections. Although artificial nutrition is an alternative, nutrition should be based on oral feeding. A natural food diet supplemented with dietary supplements is the basis of satisfactory nutrition.

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