Joanna Injore
Dietitian
15 - 20 years experience
Dietetics.
Supporting health and wellbeing through nutritional therapy; speak to a specialist dietitian who can provide dietary advice for cancer patients and those in recovery. They can help you make small changes to your diet to optimise your strength and tolerance to treatment or enhance recovery.
A cancer dietician can help if:
You are interested in optimising your strength and tolerance to cancer treatment and enhancing your recovery by making small or substantial changes to your diet, backed by expert nutritional advice for cancer patients and those in recovery.
The support we give:
Perci cancer dietitians will complete a thorough nutritional assessment before giving personalised dietary advice, applying their understanding of how certain foods and supplements interact with medications and treatments, such as chemotherapy.
Where needed, they can focus on specific issues such as cancer weight gain, loss of appetite or alternatively work on an overall health and recovery programme.
FAQs
What is nutritional therapy for cancer?
Nutritional therapy is the modification of your food, drink and eating pattern to improve your health. This may or may not include the use of nutritional supplements. Nutritional therapy after a cancer diagnosis is based on clinical research and requires a special understanding of cancer and cancer treatments.
What can healthy nutrition do for cancer patients?
Nutritional therapy can be used to manage common side effects during and after treatment such as loss of appetite, nausea and digestive changes.
It is common for people to gain weight, lose weight and lose muscle mass during cancer treatments. Dietary changes can be used to regain a healthy body composition and to better support your immune system to tolerate the treatment and promote recovery afterwards.
