Cancer nutrition therapy / 中国肿瘤临床

ABSTRACT

This paper introduces a new treatment method for cancer, namely, cancer nutrition therapy (CNT). CNT is the plan-ning and delivery of nutrition intervention to treat cancers and their complications and improve therapeutic outcomes. The proposed treatment has three phases(a) Assessing nutritional status;(b) Providing therapy, ranging from counseling, dietary modification, and oral supplementation to nutrient delivery by tube or parenteral feeding;and (c) Monitoring and follow-up, which are critical to assure that CNT could achieve its goals and appropriate for the dynamic nutritional status of the patient.