ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2024
Nutritional care for cancer patients: are we doing enough?
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Abstract
Malnutrition is associated with higher rates of surgical complications, increased anticancer treatment toxicities, longer hospital stays, higher healthcare costs, poorer patient quality of life, and lower survival rates. Nutritional support has been shown to improve all of these outcomes. However, the nutritional care of cancer patients is still suboptimal and several issues remain unresolved. Although the effectiveness of nutritional support depends on the timeliness of intervention, assessment of nutritional status is often delayed and perceived as unimportant. When diagnoses of malnutrition are made, they are rarely recorded in medical records. Hospitals lack medical staff dedicated to clinical nutrition, making it difficult to integrate nutritional care into the multidisciplinary management of cancer patients. Outside the hospital, nutritional support is hampered by heterogeneous reimbursement policies and a lack of adequate community nutrition services. In addition, an increasing number of patients are turning to potentially harmful "anti-cancer" diets as trust in medicine declines. Adopting mandatory nutrition screening, monitoring quality of care metrics, providing nutrition education to care providers, and implementing telehealth systems are some of the most urgent interventions that need to be established in the future.
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