Evidence shows that eating well before, during and after cancer treatment can help you feel better, as well as reducing the side effects of treatment, reducing cancer recurrence and improving survival rates. Many people find that making the decision to eat well helps give them a sense of control.
Searching online for ‘cancer and diet’ brings up nearly two million results! However, some of the information that searching produces may be misleading or unsafe. Therefore, dietitians working with Wessex Cancer Alliance have collated the following pages of good, sound nutritional advice which you can personalise depending on your own needs.
This survey is based on the ‘Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool’ (‘MUST’) which we have used with the kind permission of BAPEN (British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition). Further information on ‘MUST’ can be found at: www.bapen.org.uk or www.malnutritionselfscreening.org