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Nutrition for oncological diseases
Strejčková, Vendula ; Jirsová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Aschermannová, Alexandra (referee)
Sufficient and quality nutrition is an important support for mastering serious oncological treatment and debilitating illness. Educating the public about the risk of oncological disease related malnutrition and the importance of a balanced diet, incidence of new malignanccies increases every year. 94 000 people as the newly diagnosis were in 2015. Nearly 542 000 people lived with cancer diagnosis in 2015. Not only among patient it is widespread idea that malnutrition is something that can not concern us because we are doing good. Many patients do not have insight into their nutritional status. They do not think they are at risk of malnutrition. But if someone gets cancer, sooner or later, the symptoms of the disease will appear, and along with demanding treatment that brings a lot of side effects, and worsing of oral intake, and weight loss is coming. The theoretical part describes the causes of the cancer disease, its influence on the organism, the most common types of anticancer treatment together with the side effects and the possibilities of their management. The second half of the theoretical work deals with the evaluation of nutritional risk in oncological patients, nutritional recommendations and in case of insufficient nutrition for any reason, as well as nutritional support. Objective...
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