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- Title
Nutrition in cervical cancer.
- Authors
Forcoș, Mariana; Bota, Violeta; Morlova, Mihaela
- Abstract
Nutrition has an important role in fighting cancer and keeping the immune system as strong as possible. Recommendations: personalized healthy diet, depending on each patient's deficiency; supplementing the diet with appropriate vitamins, minerals and medicines; prevention of weight loss occurring in 50% of the cancer patients; anticipation of treatments side effects interfering with nutrition (taste and smell alteration, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, changes in intestinal transit); balanced diet, consumption of foods containing key nutrients (carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals); minimum daily intake of eight glasses of water (insufficient water intake leads to severe dehydration with bad consequences for the body). Ideally, the cancer patient should have a balanced diet with food from all five basic food groups!
- Subjects
NUTRITION; CERVICAL cancer patients; CERVICAL cancer treatment
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p66
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Abstract