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Untreated malnutrition is rife among cancer patients: here’s how we can do better
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Untreated malnutrition is rife among cancer patients: here’s how we can do better

  • Paweł Walewski
  • 20 October 2023

In the mid-1970s, the US medical community was shocked by an article published in Nutrition Today under the title ‘The Skeleton in the Hospital Closet’. "I suspect that one of the largest pockets of unrecognized malnutrition in America exists, not…

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Food insecurity: Why screening for access to nutrition should be part of cancer treatment everywhere
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Food insecurity: Why screening for access to nutrition should be part of cancer treatment everywhere

  • Swagata Yadavar
  • 24 February 2023

Sixteen-year-old Sahil Bacchav had just finished his tenth grade exams when he developed terrible headaches and a feeling that his nose was blocked. He was referred to King Edward Memorial Hospital, a municipal hospital in Mumbai, where he had his…

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Obesity and cancer: 12 things clinicians and patients should know
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Obesity and cancer: 12 things clinicians and patients should know

  • Neli Ulrich
  • 23 September 2022

The significant link that has been clearly established between obesity and risk of 13 types of cancer means that many patients in the ‘obese’ category can be offered an opportunity to improve their health and their prognosis. Currently, more often…

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Beating the odds in colorectal cancer
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Beating the odds in colorectal cancer

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 3 February 2022

Stefan Gijssels beat the odds in colorectal cancer. Diagnosed with a cancer of the colon in 2015, a laparoscopic surgery intended to remove what was thought to be a locally contained tumour revealed something much nastier. The cancer had pierced…

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Not too little, not too much… a lesson for cancer prevention from ancient civilisations 
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Not too little, not too much… a lesson for cancer prevention from ancient civilisations 

  • Adriana Albini
  • 31 March 2021

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” This quotation from Hippocrates pops up regularly in writings advocating a…

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Oncology providers urged to offer healthy life style advice to breast cancer survivors
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Oncology providers urged to offer healthy life style advice to breast cancer survivors

  • Janet Fricker
  • 19 February 2021

Breast cancer survivors commonly experience treatment-related factors, such as fatigue, depression and discomfort, presenting barriers to the adoption of healthy life styles. The US questionnaire study, published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (1 February 2021),…

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Dietary guidelines need reform to meet global health and environmental goals
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Dietary guidelines need reform to meet global health and environmental goals

  • Janet Fricker
  • 22 July 2020

National dietary guidelines in most countries need to be reformed to take into account health and environmental targets, concludes a study published in the BMJ (published online July 15). The international study, by UK, US and Australian investigators, found around…

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Cancer prevention through physical activity and diet: an updated guideline from the U.S.
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Cancer prevention through physical activity and diet: an updated guideline from the U.S.

  • Cristina Ferrario
  • 15 June 2020

According to the latest update of the American Cancer Society (ACS) guideline, four main pillars are needed to keep cancer away using diet and exercise. Here they are: achieve and maintain a healthy body weight throughout life, be physically active,…

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