Nutrition and the cancer patient

Del Fabbro, Egidio, Bruera, Eduardo, Demark-Wahnefried, Wendy, Bowling, Tim, Hopkinson, Jane and Baracos, Vickie (eds.) (2010) Nutrition and the cancer patient , Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, 536pp.

Abstract

Will enable physicians, nurses and also dieticians to better discuss the complex issues of nutrition with cancer patients and their families. Provides both background information and practical, clinical advice. Includes information that relates to patients who are continuing to receive disease-specific therapy, the cancer survivor, as well as patients with advanced or recurrent cancer receiving palliative care.

Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors. Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification, exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer care, but nutritional issues at the end of life can be accompanied by contentious ethical factors as well as religious and cultural influences that need to be addressed by health professionals. This book enables physicians, nurses and also dieticians to better discuss these complex issues with patients and their families.

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