Nutritional Practices in a Case with Lung Cancer

Abstract

Lung cancer is an unfortunate disease particularly in that it is often diagnosed in advanced stage with no prior symptoms. Treatment includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or a combination of these. Patients’ oral food consumption decreases dramatically because of medical treatment. Unintentional weight loss is recognized as an independent predictor of poor health and earlier death in advanced cancer. Medical nutrition therapy is often required for nutrition-related side effects of cancer treatment, which included nausea, vomiting, early satiety, xerostomia, dysgeusia, diarrhea, and constipation. In this case report we discussed via a case experienced symptoms and nutritional strategies in chemotherapy period.