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Effects of Dietary Counseling on Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Cancers of the colon and rectum together are second most common tumor type worldwide. We studied the influence of nutritional support (counseling, nutritional supplements, megestrol acetate) on physical status and symptoms in patients with colorectal cancer during chemotherapy. Nutritional counseling, supplemental feeding and pharmacological support do temporarily stop weight loss and improve appetite, QoL and social life, but this improvement has no implications on patients KPS and course of their disease. Conclusion: These results encourage further studies with more specific nutritional supplementation in patients with colorectal cancer and probably in gastrointestinal oncology.

colorectal cancer, nutritional support

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