Nutrition in cancer care can be affected by the tumor or by treatment and result in weight loss, malnutrition, anorexia, cachexia, and sarcopenia. Get information about strategies to screen, assess, and treat nutritional problems, including through diet and supplements, in this clinician summary.
Thus, nutrition plays a crucial role in multimodal cancer care. Robust evidence indicates that nutritional issues should be taken into ac-count since the time of cancer diagnosis, within a diagnostic and therapeutic pathway, and should be running in parallel to antineo-plastic treatments.
Nutrition goals for a patient with advanced cancer may depend on the overall plan of care. These patients may be receiving anticancer therapy (with or without concurrent palliative care), may be receiving palliative care alone, or may be enrolled in hospice.
Nutritional supplement drinks help people with cancer get the nutrients they need. They provide energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. They are not meant to be the person's only source of nutrition. A person who is not able to take in the right amount of calories and nutrients by mouth may be fed using the following: