Patient-centered outcomes in cancer: Nutrition makes a real difference!

Current Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-203

  Ravasco, Paula ^a   Camilo, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diet intake; Intensive nutritional counseling; Nutritional status morbidity; Outcomes; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; DIET THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXPECTATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 33745839692     PISSN: 15734013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340106776818871     Document Type: Review

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