Journal of Nutrition Research
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 8-18
Review Article
Shivshankar Timmanpyati 1, Arvind Krishnamurthy 2, Purvish Parikh 3, Meenakshi Bajaj 4, Sumant Gupta 5, Purabi Mahajan 1, Priti Arolkar 1, Gargee Rai 6, Rajeswari Alagirimunuswamy 7, Arnab Gupta 8, Nagaraj Huilgol 9, Shamali Poojary 1, Nandita Dhanaki 10, Fagun Gandhi 10, Rajeshwari Prem 11, Shaveta Bhatta 12, M V Chandrakant 13, C Reena 14, Savita Goswami 1, Arun Balaji 1, Manjusha Vagal 1, Meenu Walia 15, Esther Sathiaraj 16, Manish Goswami ✉ 17
Received Date:12 December 2021, Accepted Date:22 December 2021, Published Date:28 December 2021
Malnutrition is one of the most common and significant issue during the treatment of cancer. Poor nutritional management during the treatment may impede the progress in the treatment. Many international societies have nutritional recommendations published on their websites. India, being a multicultural population with varied nutritional habits and local beliefs have no cohesive evidence-based nutritional approach during and after treatment. The current guideline has been formulated jointly by oncologists, nutritionists, and multidisciplinary professionals with an aim to provide science based standard nutritional guidance to the community healthcare professionals across India. The committee referred to major international guidelines published in recent past. With intense deliberations adopted few selective recommendations which are compatible with Indian practice.
Keywords: Cancer, Nutrition, Consensus guideline, nutrition in cancer, IAPEN guidelines, IAPEN cancer guidelines
© 2021 Timmanpyati et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Published By India Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (IAPEN)
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