Nutritional therapy is that?

The survival of humanity is inseparable from nutrients, these substances (including sugar, fat, protein, vitamin, mineral and trace elements, etc.) not only to maintain the body's growth, development, reproduction and produce energy, repair tissue damage and has physiological functions and regulation role. Cancer patients because rapid tumor growth, to consume large amounts of nutrients, which produces a toxin and cause fever, anorexia, nausea and vomiting. So make ends meet, gradual weight loss, weight loss. Especially the oral and maxillofacial cancer patients because eating disorders, weight loss is particularly evident. For such patients give a reasonable nutrition therapy is more important. Poor nutrition is also a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgical treatment of disorders and Dental Instruments therefore need adequate nutrition, or health restoration and the patient's emotions are negative.

The study found that inadequate nutrition, the body's immune function, increasing the chance of some tissue tumors. To high intravenous nutrition in patients, cancer patients significantly improved immune function. After surgery, patients in the high-nutrition supplement to give faster recovery, accelerate wound healing. Also found that, although high-nutrition supplement to accelerate the proliferation of the tumor, but increased sensitivity to chemical anti-cancer drugs, which can improve the outcome. For radiation therapy also increased the sensitivity. Some patients can not be due to malnutrition and higher dose anti-cancer treatment, high-nutrition treatment to improve physical fitness, will be able to tolerate cancer treatment. Therefore, nutritional therapy has become an adjunct to cancer treatment. Generally high in nutritional supplement 1 to 2 weeks after the implementation of chemotherapy or radiation therapy, better results. Clinical studies have shown that cancer patients given high-nutrition supplement therapy can prolong survival. But nutrition is only an adjunct therapy, if not simply the use of nutritional supplements with anti-cancer measures for the treatment of cancer patients is still unfavorable.