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KMID : 1104820140020010015
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Journal of Digestive Cancer Research
2014 Volume.2 No. 1 p.15 ~ p.20
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Nutritional Assessment and Nutritional Management for GI Cancer Patients
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Um Mi-Hyang
Park Yoo-Kyoung
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Abstract
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Cancer, especially GI cancer itself and any associated treatments have profound effect on the patient’s nutritional status. It is therefore very important to understand various nutritional issues in GI cancer patients for the cure and for increasing the compliance during the course of the treatment. Screening and identification of nutritional risk for the GI cancer patients is very essential and is plays a critical part of the treatment to help improve patient outcomes. Maintaining optimal nutritional status is an important goal in the management of individuals diagnosed, treated with cancer. Maintenance of adequate nutritional intake is important whether patients are undergoing active therapy, recovering from cancer therapy, or are in remission and striving to avoid cancer recurrence. The goals of nutrition therapy are to prevent or reverse nutrient deficiencies, preserve lean body mass, help patients better tolerate treatments and minimize nutrition-related side effects and complications, etc. Recent interest in clinical settings is also in maximizing quality of life of the patients which can also be modulated by appropriate nutrition.
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KEYWORD
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GI cancer, Nutrition screening, Nutrition assessment, Nutrition therapy
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