If you have Cancer, good nutrition is especially important because the disease and its therapies might alter your eating habits. They can also influence how your body embraces and utilizes nutrition. Learn everything you can about cancer, your treatment options, and how you may feel during your therapy.

3. Overview of
Nutrition in
Cancer Care
• Good nutrition is important for cancer
patients.
• Healthy eating habits are important
during and after cancer treatment.
• Cancer and cancer treatments may cause
side effects that affect nutrition.
• Cancer and cancer treatments may cause
malnutrition.
• Anorexia and cachexia are common
causes of malnutrition in cancer patients.

4. NUTRITION IN JOURNEY OF
CANCER
Ms. Suvarna Sawant
Chief Dietician
HCG Cancer Centre
Borivali Unit

7. ▪ Maintain Weight
▪ Maintain Nutrition stores
▪ Lower Risk of Infection
▪ Better Treatment Toleration (lesser Side effects)
▪ Fast Recovery
▪ Improve Quality of Life
WHY NUTRITION IS IMPORTANT
DURING CANCER TREATMENT ?

8. RAINBOW IN YOUR PLATE

9. IDEAL PLATE

10. KITCHEN
INGREDIENTS
Haldi- Anti inlammatory
Hing- Good digestion
Methi - Controlling
blood sugar
Flaxseed (alsi) - Heart
protective
Garden cress seed
(haleem)
- Hemoglobin

11. KITCHEN
INGREDIENTS
Walnuts (akrot) –Anti
Inflammatory
Elaichi- decrease nausea & acidity
Vitamin C- Antioxidant

12. MANAGING TRATMENT
SIDE EFFECT
● NAUSEA:
-Remove your self from the cooking process.
-Avoid strong smells.
-Add mint, ginger & lemon to dish.
-Sit upright for eating and drinking.
● TASTE CHANGES:
-Cleanse your mouth properly.
-Maintain good oral hygiene.
-Avoid metal utensil.
-Try to eat food at room temperature.
-Increase your fluid intake.

13. LOSS OF APPETITE
● Eat five or six smaller meals per day.
● Eat the largest meal when you are hungriest.
● Start with high-protein foods while your appetite is strongest.
● Keep favorite high-calorie foods and beverages within easy reach.
● Try to be as physically active as you are able to be to help stimulate your
appetite.
● Avoid high-fat, greasy, spicy, or overly sweet foods.
● Sip on beverages between meals rather than with meals.

14. Diarrhea
● Drink plenty of fluids
● Eat small amounts of soft bland foods Examples: moong dal
khichadi, curd,
● Bread
● Avoid fried foods like bhajya, samosa, puri
● Have fruit like apple, pomegranate, banana
● Avoid spices
● Avoid Gas forming foods & beverages (beans, cabbage,
carbonated beverages).
● Avoid milk, instead take buttermilk or curd
● Limit foods and beverages with caffeine and beverages
extremely hot or cold.

15. Constipation
● Eat whole grains such as whole wheat, legumes and
nuts.
● Eat vegetable and fruits 3-4 serving in a day.
● Drink plenty of fluids. Example 8-10 glasses of water
or buttermilk
● Avoid processed or packet food
● Avoid maida products such as biscuit, bread, etc
● Do some exercise like walking or stretching exercise.

16. Mucositis/Esophagitis
● Encourage good oral hygiene practices to promote comfort, enhance taste and stimulate
appetite.
● Avoid intake of known irritants such as: acidic foods or fluids o Spicy, salty or very sweet foods
or fluids o Dry or rough foods Tobacco, alcohol.
● Encourage adequate fluid intake. Well-tolerated fluids include warm or cool milk based
beverages, cream soups.
● Alter the consistency and temperature of foods to suit individual tolerances (for example cool
or lukewarm temperature, soft solids, mashed solids, pureed solids, baby foods, thick or thin
liquids).
● Recommend dunking or moistening dry foods in liquid.
● Recommend small, frequent energy and protein dense meals or snacks.
● Ensure vitamin and mineral needs are met if nutrition modifications are to be long term.

17. NUTRITIONAL MYTHS AND FACT
Many people have been taught that juice
diets/fasts are a safe and productive
practice
• Juice should not be used to meet basic
nutrient needs as it significantly reduces
consumption of multiple food groups
• People who practice these methods need
to be aware that it significantly reduces the
amount of fiber in the diet
• Sugar feeds cancer
• A raw food diet prevents/cures cancer
• Carrot beet juice is a medicine for cancer
• Meat and dairy products cause cancer
• HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS WILL HELP TO FIGHT
CANCER

18. NUTRITIONAL MYTHS AND
FACT

19. Neutropenic Diet
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21. Physical Activity
● Check with your healthcare provider regarding the right
physical activity for you. Physiotherapist will help you with this.
● Engage in regular physical activity.
● Avoid inactivity and return to normal daily activities as soon as
possible.
● Aim to exercise at least 150 minutes per week.
● Include strength training exercises at least 2 days per week
(exercises in which you work against resistance such as
weights), with your healthcare provider’s approval.

22. Low cost Protein Foods
MILK & MILK PRODUCTS
EGG
PEAS
SATTU
SOY & SOY PRODUCTS
SPROUTS

23. Low cost protein food
● Egg custard
● Dry fruit milkshake
● Lassi/ Thick
Buttermilk
● Amylase Rich Flour
● Soyabean bhaji
● soyabean roti
● Peas roti
● Sattu
● Sprouted salad/
Sprouted pan cake
● Hummus

24. EGG CUSTARD RECIPE
Ingredient:
● 1 EGG
● 1 CUP MILK
● 1 TSP SUGAR
● VANILLA ESSENCE – OPTIONAL
Method:
● Beat the eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla essence.
● Pour in katori, in double boiler cook till it thickens.
Amylase Rich Flour
Ingredient
3 Parts cereal (rice/wheat) + 1 Part pulse (moong dal)
Method:
▪ Soak the grains in water until sprouting takes place (around 48 hours)
▪ Dry in the sun / roast lightly on low flame
▪ Powder by hand pounding or in an electric grinder
▪ Store in a wide mouthed screw cap bottle

25. Sattu
● Ingredients:2 cup channa dal
Method:
● Soak gram dal or gram in water for 8-9 hours.
● Remove out of water, and dry well in the pan.
● Keep a pan in medium flame and roast until they are golden brown.
● Grind them into a mixer.
● Put it in an air tight pot.
● Use as drink or can be added in chapatti.

26. Soyabean cutlet
Ingredient
● 100 grams soya chunks
● 10 grams ginger
● 2 tablespoons coriander leaves finely chopped
● 1 teaspoon Mint leaves
● 4 Carrot finely chopped
● 3 tablespoons sweet corn
● 1 green chilli finely chopped
● 3 bread multigrain
● salt to taste
● 1 tablespoon oil for shallow frying
Methods
● Soak the soya chunks into the hot water for 30 minutes.
● drain the water and in a large bowl squeeze off excess water.
● Now put these soya chunks into a blender jar and add carrot, corn, green chilli, ginger, mint leaves, coriander leaves, salt to taste and blend
everything to a coarse paste.
● Take it out in a big bowl.
● In another jar break bread into smaller chunks and whizz them to make fresh bread crumbs.
● Add these bread crumbs in soya chunks and veggie paste. Mix and make a smooth very soft dough.
● Shape these in form of round cutlets also known as tikki. And once again roll these cutlets with bread crumbs.
● While rolling take care to firmly press the bread crumbs around these soya cutlets. This will yield in crispy cutlets.
● In a pan heat oil and place these cutlets. Cook them over medium heat.
● Once golden brown from one side flip them over and cook till crispy from the other side as well.
● Serve these delicious protein rich snack of soya cutlet with tomato ketchup or green chutney.