Understanding the Role of Diet, Nutrition and Body Composition in Cancer Survivorship
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 1207
Special Issue Editor
2. Cancer Research@UCC, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Interests: clinical nutrition; body composition; cancer cachexia; sarcopenia; cancer survivorship
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With early detection, advancing treatment, and increasing numbers of survivors, the area of oncology survivorship, and the resources it requires, is ever emerging. The transition from patient to survivor is challenging, as these individuals are living longer with the consequences of their illness, reducing their quality of life, and impacting their long-term disease-free survival.
Nutrition is important in cancer prevention and treatment, but evidence on the role of nutrition after cancer is limited. Recommendations for dietary and lifestyle advice for cancer survivors, unless otherwise told, are simply extrapolated from those for cancer prevention. There is a growing interest in survivorship care, as part of the cancer trajectory based on a patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach, to identify the unique needs and requirements of this cohort, including those of a nutritional nature.
This Special Issue, “Understanding the Role of Diet, Nutrition and Body Composition in Cancer Survivorship”, aims to inform our knowledge of diet–cancer relationships after treatment and examine how body composition affects cancer outcomes. There is a focus on the importance of sarcopenia and other measures of body composition in the post diagnosis period and the optimal goal is to identify the research needed to inform nutritional recommendations for cancer survivors.
Dr. Samantha J. Cushen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer survivorship
- nutrition
- body composition
- sarcopenia
