Diet problems with cancer
Eating a healthy balanced diet can help you cope with cancer and treatment. It can also help you cope with life after cancer treatment has finished.
A healthy diet is also an important part of getting ready for cancer treatment. This preparation is called prehabilitation. Prehabilitation includes a focus on what you eat, your weight, physical activity and mental health.
Last reviewed: 25 Mar 2024
Next review due: 25 Mar 2027
Cancer can cause changes to your body, making it hard to eat or digest food and use its nutrients.
The side effects of cancer and its treatments might cause problems with your eating, digestion and weight.
Medicines, soft diets, adding calories to your diet or tube feeding are some of the ways to manage diet problems.
Having diet problems when you have cancer can affect you emotionally. But there are things you can do to help you cope.
There are lots of organisations, support groups and helpful books to help you cope with diet problems caused by cancer and its treatment.
Cancer and its treatment can cause eating and drinking difficulties in some people. But there are people that can help and things you can do to cope better.
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