Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:917647. doi: 10.1155/2013/917647. Epub 2013 Oct 30.
The primary goal of palliative cancer care is typically to relieve suffering and improve quality of life. Most approaches to diet in this setting have focused only on eating as many calories as possible to avoid cachexia. However, as the concept of palliative care has evolved to include all aspects of cancer survivorship and not just end of life care, there is an increasing need to thoughtfully consider diet and nutrition approaches that can impact not only quality of life but overall health outcomes and perhaps even positively affect cancer recurrence and progression. In this regard, there has been a recent emphasis in the literature on nutrition and cancer as an important factor in both quality of life and in the pathophysiology of cancer. Hence, the primary purpose of this paper is to review the current data on diet and nutrition as it pertains to a wide range of cancer patients in the palliative care setting.
姑息治疗癌症的主要目标通常是减轻痛苦和提高生活质量。在这种情况下，大多数饮食方法都只关注摄入尽可能多的卡路里以避免恶病质。然而，随着姑息治疗概念的发展，已经将其涵盖癌症生存者的所有方面，而不仅仅是生命末期的护理，因此，人们越来越需要深思熟虑地考虑饮食和营养方法，这些方法不仅可以影响生活质量，还可以影响整体健康结果，甚至可能对癌症的复发和进展产生积极影响。在这方面，文献中最近强调了营养和癌症作为生活质量和癌症病理生理学的重要因素。因此，本文的主要目的是综述与姑息治疗环境中的广泛癌症患者相关的饮食和营养的现有数据。
