Galindo-Santiago SE, Locia-Espinoza J, Pérez-Vásquez MO, Pascual-Mathey LI

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ABSTRACT

The famous Hippocrates said, "let medicine be your food; or, rather, let food be your medicine." But to what extent can this phrase be used in people subjected to stressful conditions, such as that of cancer patients, in which the disease causes a general organic dysfunction, including severe malnutrition? In addition, cancer treatments, especially those involving the use of radio-chemotherapy (RQT), are extremely aggressive, causing adverse reactions and secondary malnutrition, which is associated with a significant decrease in body weight (including a loss of muscle, leans, and bone mass). This is a crucial point of attention in a critically ill patient: nutritional care. Therefore, patients require clinical support, which allows them to contribute at least 60% of the nutrients of the recommended daily diet and restore the volume of the body compartments, a further complicated situation, considering that weight is also compromised by age, size, and location of the tumor mass, as well as fluid retention. In this sense, the clinician, with the support of the ASPEN and ESPEN guidelines, can improve secondary malnutrition through different clinical schemes, providing an adequate percentage of nutrients, being, specialized nutrition, one that manages to improve the nutritional status during the oncological treatment, contributing to the recovery of the patient in critical condition, as well as to the nutritional maintenance after the oncological process. Therefore, the objective of this review is to describe the importance of nutritional care in the recovery and restoration of health in the oncological patient.

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