The Importance of Nutrition in Patients With Cancer

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Abstract
The desirability of maintaining good nutrition in patients with cancer has been confirmed by the results of recent experiments with total parenteral nutrition (TPN).1-3 Cancer patients are frequently malnourished owing to direct or indirect tumor effects, the effects of surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy, and psychological factors. Maintaining a proper diet is an integral part of anticancer therapy, without which other modalities are less likely to succeed. It is important for physicians to not only be aware of nutritional problems of patients as well as medical problems, but to stress the need to maintain adequate intake. It is the responsibility of the patient to learn about nutrition and to maintain an adequate and balanced dietary program. In many cases it may be necessary for the patient to think of food as medicine because the normal hunger stimulus for eating is frequently absent. TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION Studies with TPN have

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