Nutrition for Cancer Patients

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Good nutrition is especially important if you have cancer because both the illness and its treatment can

affect your appetite. Cancer and cancer treatments can also affect your body's ability to tolerate certain

foods and use nutrients. The linked website can help you learn about your nutrition needs and cope with

treatment side effects that may affect how well you can eat.

Cancer survivors often have questions about food choices, physical activity, and dietary supplement use to

help improve their quality of life and survival. The questions and answers listed in the linked website

address some of the most common concerns that cancer survivors have about these issues.

The above link includes details of:

Nutrition for the person with cancer	Nutrition during treatment: online classes
Low fibre foods	Nutrition after treatment: online classes
Answers to common questions	Nutrition and physical activity after treatment: online classes
Lifestyle changes that make a difference