Nutritional Treatment of Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Agata Lewandowska¹, Urszula Religioni², Aleksandra Czerw^{3

4}, Andrzej Deptała⁵, Beata Karakiewicz⁶, Olga Partyka⁴, Monika Pajewska⁴, Katarzyna Sygit⁷, Elżbieta Cipora⁸, Kamila Kmieć⁷, Anna Augustynowicz^{2

3}, Dominika Mękal⁵, Michał Waszkiewicz², Agnieszka Barańska⁹, Daniela Mináriková^{10

11}, Peter Minárik^{11

12}, Piotr Merks¹³

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¹ Nutritional Treatment Clinic, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
² School of Public Health, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education of Warsaw, 01-826 Warsaw, Poland.
³ Department of Health Economics and Medical Law, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Department of Economic and System Analyses, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
⁵ Department of Cancer Prevention, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland.
⁶ Subdepartment of Social Medicine and Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, 70-103 Szczecin, Poland.
⁷ Faculty of Health Sciences, Calisia University, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland.
⁸ Faculty of Medical Science, Jan Grodek State University in Sanok, 38-500 Sanok, Poland.
⁹ Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics with E-Learning Lab, Medical University of Lublin, 20-090 Lublin, Poland.
¹⁰ Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovakia.
¹¹ Institute for Prevention and Intervention, St. Elizabeth University of Health and Social Work, 811 02 Bratisla-va, Slovakia.
¹² Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 04 Bratislava, Slovakia.
¹³ Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardi-nal Stefan Wyszyński University, 01-815 Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 35682464
PMCID: PMC9180662
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19116881

Review

Nutritional Treatment of Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Agata Lewandowska et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022.

. 2022 Jun 4;19(11):6881.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph19116881.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Nutritional Treatment Clinic, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
² School of Public Health, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education of Warsaw, 01-826 Warsaw, Poland.
³ Department of Health Economics and Medical Law, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Department of Economic and System Analyses, National Institute of Public Health NIH-National Research Institute, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland.
⁵ Department of Cancer Prevention, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland.
⁶ Subdepartment of Social Medicine and Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, 70-103 Szczecin, Poland.
⁷ Faculty of Health Sciences, Calisia University, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland.
⁸ Faculty of Medical Science, Jan Grodek State University in Sanok, 38-500 Sanok, Poland.
⁹ Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics with E-Learning Lab, Medical University of Lublin, 20-090 Lublin, Poland.
¹⁰ Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovakia.
¹¹ Institute for Prevention and Intervention, St. Elizabeth University of Health and Social Work, 811 02 Bratisla-va, Slovakia.
¹² Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 04 Bratislava, Slovakia.
¹³ Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardi-nal Stefan Wyszyński University, 01-815 Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 35682464
PMCID: PMC9180662
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19116881

Abstract

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in Europe and the world. Cancer treatments have side effects and cause significant deterioration of the patient's nutritional status. Patient malnutrition may worsen the health condition and prevent the deliberate effects of the therapy. The aim of this review was to describe the available data about clinical nutrition in colorectal cancer patients. A large proportion of colorectal cancer patients suffer from malnutrition, which negatively affects the survival prognosis, quality of life, and oncological therapy. Therefore, monitoring nutritional status during the treatment is essential and can be used to arrange proper nutritional therapy to enhance patient responses, prevent side effects, and shorten recovery time. The principles of nutrition during anticancer therapy should mainly consider light and low-fat foods, the exclusion of lactose and gluten-containing foods in certain cases, or the introduction of special dietary products such as oral nutrition supplements and it should be tailored to patients' individual needs.

Keywords: cancer; colorectal cancer; malnutrition; neoplasms; nutritional deficiency.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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