Cancer treatment plans are many and varied, but research is beginning to show there is one element that can benefit virtually all patients: a greater focus on nutrition.
“Cancer patients have increased nutritional needs due to cancer itself or due to treatment-related nutrition impacts symptoms, such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting, which place them at high risk of malnutrition,” said Fang Fang Zhang, who specializes in cancer epidemiology and nutrition.
85%
of cancer patients at risk of malnutrition
Zhang, a professor and chair of the division of nutrition epidemiology and data science at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, recently spoke on campus as part of the weekly Monday Nutrition Seminar Series at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
