Thirty percent of cancer patients are malnourished! This diet is preferred for patients.

"Tumor cells provide the energy they need primarily through sugars, and the use of fat is poor, so a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet should be the preferred option for tumor patients." Wang Kun, director of the nutrition department at Tianjin Cancer Hospital, said. In the third week of May, "National Nutrition Week", a survey conducted by Tianjin Cancer Hospital showed that the incidence of preoperative malnutrition in tumor patients was as high as 30%, and more than 90% of cancer patients still had insufficient protein intake under the regular diet.
once suffering from a tumor, patients often think first of the main cause of the disease, what kind of treatment should be taken, but few patients will pay attention to their nutritional status. In fact, malnutrition will reduce the quality of life of tumor patients, shorten the survival time, nutritional treatment is not enough for the current tumor patients five-year survival rate is not high one of the important reasons.
Tianjin Cancer Hospital, by evaluating the nutritional status and dietary intake of nearly 200 patients with tumors in the special tybet department, found that nearly 30% of patients had malnutrition problems, 80% of patients had insufficient preoperative dietary intake, and 91% of patients had insufficient protein intake. In particular, patients with digestive cancer have a higher proportion of malnutrition due to the influence of tumor sites. The survey also found that the proportion of patients with primary liver cancer with nutritional risk was as high as 45.9%, 39% with mild moderate malnutrition and 13.4% of patients with severe malnutrition.
Wang Kun said that the current doctors and patients on the cancer nutrition treatment is not enough attention, most people's nutritional knowledge of the source of channels and science is uneven, resulting in some patients have "less or do not eat can starve cancer", "eat the better the tumor long", "eat a certain food supplementary nutrition" these three misunderstandings, resulting in their nutritional status difficult to support anti-tumor treatment.
myth one: eat less or not eat can "starve the tumor"
tumor cells are not normal cells, these abnormal cells will quickly divide, grow and "steal" the nutrition of normal cells in the body. At this time, if still adhere to the "hunger therapy", but will cause the body's nutritional deficiencies, affect ingenuity of normal cells in the body and protective effect, leading to a decline in self-immunity, increase the risk of infection.
Myth 2: The faster the tumor grows
the theory of nutritional "feeding tumor" has no practical evidence and should not be used as a reason for cancer patients to reduce or stop using nutritional support. The primary purpose of nutritional and metabolic interventions is not to treat tumors, but to change metabolic disorders by maintaining or improving food intake, maintaining physical function and reducing the risk of treatment interruption. Good nutritional status can help patients reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy, improve treatment tolerance and patient quality of life.
myth three: eat a certain kind of "nutrition" food
all kinds of foods contain nutrients and quantities are different, such as eggs contain protein, cholesterol is high, fish and shrimp protein content, low saturated fat content, high content of polyunsaturated fat, pork and beef iron content is more abundant, spinach and celery containing cellulose, low sugar content, high cellulose content ... It can be said that each food has its own "advantages and disadvantages", only a single food supplement will still lead to uneven nutritional intake.Director Wang Kun, director of the
, suggested that cancer patients should not blindly choose "hunger" therapy, and do not worry too much about eating "nutritional" food will lead to the development of tumors, should be scientifically and rational choice of food. When tumor patients due to various reasons lead to food intake decline, it is difficult to maintain a normal healthy weight, we must receive professional nutritional support therapy, through the regulation of dietary intake, body metabolism, intestinal flora and other means of nutritional intervention, so as to improve the prognosis of tumor patients, improve the survival rate and quality of life. (Tianjin Cancer Hospital Zhu Wei)
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