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Diet, nutrition and cancer: prevention and treatment.
Today we're going to present the book
'Diet, Nutrition and Cancer: Prevention and Treatment'
This is a very important book for all of us,
since it's been written to help our cancer patients
to take care of their diet
before the disease can appear
and to help them during the entire treatment process
because the patient will inevitably be malnourished
due to the disease and its treatments
and if we treat them properly,
we can really improve their survival and their quality of life.
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The problem is that, actually,
there are many myths about the relation between diet and cancer
and we know very little about it.
There are some foods which protect against cancer
and others that contribute to it.
Many times, the news is based
on epidemiological studies.
Some years later, other studies emerge and refute old findings.
the relation between diet and cancer is very complicated
because within what we call diet
we include thousands of nutrients.
Some of them promote cancer,
others prevent it.
Depending on their proportion
even on the way the food is cooked,
they can have some biological effect or the exact opposite.
Then, actually, this book
will really help clarify the concepts
about the relation between diet and cancer.
And then another important aspect.
Cancer influences the patient nutrition,
what he or she eats
and, somehow, it's going to help us give
the patients some diet tips
to cope better with cancer and its symptoms.
Also antineoplastic therapy is very aggressive.
It often contributes to make the patient eat worse.
It contributes to malnutrition.
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Besides, the interest of this book is that it gathers
large part of the teaching material
that will be taught at an experts workshop about nutrition and cancer
and, somehow, we're interested in contributing
to the training of professionals.
To improve their knowledge and the treatments we apply
to our patients' everyday lives.
From our hospital, La Paz University Hospital
and with the UNED we've shared many experiences
of healthcare training courses.
Doctor Coral Calvo has always been the project manager.
We have offered very interesting courses.
One we've offered for many years
about home and outpatient artificial nutrition.
Another one about nutritional pathologies, well, a long list of courses.
This is just one more course. We know well
the teaching methods we can use at the UNED
and we know that we reach many people.
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Production: Iván R. Cuevas.