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What should I eat during cancer therapy period? 癌症治療期間我該怎麼吃?
What should I eat during cancer therapy period? 癌症治療期間我該怎麼吃?
2024/1/15
Goal
- To help patients realize the importance of living a balanced diet during cancer therapy, so they would have enough energy to finish the therapy.
- To reduce side effects caused by treatment and to prevent malnutrition.
Subject
patients accepting cancer treatment without oral intake problems
General principles:
- Pay attention to changes of body weight:
Maintain ideal body weight helps you stay strong, lower your risk for infection, cope with side effects, and have a greater chance of receiving treatment without unplanned breaks.
The formula is
=body high2(m2) ×22 (Maintain in ±10 % )
- Balanced diet:
Good nutrients come from six different kinds of nature food.
- Milk provides calcium, protein, and rich vitamins; but people with lactose intolerance should consume yoghourt and lactose-free formula milk.
- Cereal like rice, noodles, toast, wheat flakes, and non-purified or unprocessed foods are your primary food choice for it provides carbohydrate and vitamin B rich nutrients.
- Eggs, beans, fishes and meats provide protein to help body tissue repair and reduce infection. Consume more low fat meat and seafood like deep water fish, oyster, and soy bean products.
- Fruits and vegetables, and seaweed contain anti-tumor components which is good sources for vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
- Oil provides calories and helps absorb fat-soluble vitamin. Use of olive oil or peanut oil, or moderate intake of nuts like walnut and almond is good sources of oil.
- May there be a variety of food choices and tastes:
When we cook, make use of natural seasoning to go with various kind of food: lemon chicken, onion tomato soup, steam eggs, sliced pork with ginger, garlic spareribs, and Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet; all of which helps preserve palate changes caused by cancer therapy.
- Do not abuse unknown herbal medicine because it often delays treatment timing and affects liver and renal function.
- Avoid drinking grapefruit juice if patients are under anti-tumor drug use or immune-inhibitor.
- Maintain regular life habit: if patients’ physical strength and mental state are good, all they need is to exercise moderately to maintain normal metabolic rate in order to prevent constipation.
- If patients have trouble eating and absorbing nutrients through mouth, their body would utilize nutrients stored as energy supply which could cause malnutrition; by then, tube feeding or parenteral nutrition would have to be used.
- Go over dietary guidelines for side effects of cancer treatment if patients suffer from nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, thirsty, and poor appetite.
- 衛生福利部國民健康署(2018,10月).每日飲食指南手冊。https://www.hpa.gov.tw/Pages/EBook.aspx?nodeid=1208
- Arends, J., Bachmann, P., Baracos, V., Barthelemy, N., Bertz, H., Bozzetti, F., Fearon, K., Hütterer, E., Isenring, E., Kaasa, S., Krznaric, Z., Laird, B., Larsson, M., Laviano, A., Mühlebach, S., Muscaritoli, M., Oldervoll, L., Ravasco, P., Solheim, T., Strasser, F., … Preiser, J. C. (2017). ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland), 36(1), 11–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2016.07.015
- National Cancer Institute. (2022). Eating Hints: Before, during and after Cancer Treatment (NIH Publication No. 22-7157). U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/eatinghints.pdf
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