Nutrition and orthomolecular supplementation in lung cancer patients
Abstract
This article reviews updates and provides some data related to nutritional and orthomolecular supplementation in oncology patients with an emphasis on lung cancer, a commonly diagnosed tumor with significant nutritional disturbances.
Cancer and its treatment play a significant role in nutritional imbalance which likely has negative impact on the patient both in terms of quality and quantity of life.
Nutritional supplementation may correct these imbalances with significant clinical benefit both physiologically and psychologically.
This review will help assist in providing clinically useful data to assess the cancer patient's nutritional status and to guide nutritional intervention to assist these patients' recovery.
NOTE: This publication cites Di Bella's Method:
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See also:
- All-Trans-Retinoic Acid (ATRA - analogues and/or derivatives);
- The Di Bella Method (A Fixed Part - All-Trans Retinoic Acid, Analogues and/or Derivatives);
- Solution of retinoids in vitamin E in the Di Bella Method biological multitherapy;
- The Di Bella Method (A Fixed Part - Alpha tocopheryl acetate/Vitamin E);
- The Di Bella Method (A Fixed Part - Melatonin tablets);
- Somatostatin in oncology, the overlooked evidences;
- The Di Bella Method (A Fixed Part - Somatostatin, Octreotide, LAR analogues and/or derivatives);
- Vitamin D (analogues and/or derivatives) and cancer;
- The Di Bella Method (A Fixed Part - Dihydrotachysterol, Alfacalcidol, synthetic Vitamin D3);
- The Di Bella Method (A Fixed Part - Cyclophosphamide and/or Hydroxyurea tablets, one or two per day);
- Complete objective response to biological therapy of plurifocal breast carcinoma;
- Large B-cells Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Stage IV-AE: a Case Report;