Description:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), our health largely depends on lifestyle and nutrition (SMLPC, 2010). Nutrition studies in European countries show a worsening diet, leading to a significant increase in oncological obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and health deterioration (Elmadfa, 2009). According to WHO, cancer is one of the most common causes of death. Early diagnosis and new effective treatment methods allow the patient suffering from cancer to survive longer. Physical, social and psychological quality of life occupy a very important place in the life of a sick person. (SMLPC, 2010).
Aim of the study: to find out what is the diet of people with oncological disease and treatment during and after chemotherapy, to make recommendations for a healthy diet after chemotherapy treatment.
Research tasks :
1. Analyze scientific literature on oncology, nutrition after chemotherapy treatment.
2. Determine how people's diets changed before and after chemotherapy.
3. Compare people's nutritional peculiarities with the literature provided.
Relevance of the study: Oncology is now in second place in terms of morbidity. 2012 In the world, 14 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million people died of this disease. According to IMI data, it is predicted that by 2030, The number of new cancers will increase to 21.3 million, and the number of deaths from cancer will be up to 13.1 million (IMI in 2018). deaths from malignant tumors.
Research methodology: Quantitative research, data processed in Excel. Survey completed, 2019 February - April, on the social platform facebook, with oncology group. 116 respondents participated in the study.
Conclusions and results: Due to one of the treatments - patients with chemotherapy experience side effects such as nausea, vomiting that causes malnutrition, metabolic abnormalities - too little energy and insufficient quantity. Patients are losing weight, which later affects the choice of further treatment. What and when a person eats has a major impact on his condition during chemotherapy. In the study, the majority of subjects were in stages 2 and 3 - women with breast cancer 41 to 50 years of age and were treated with chemotherapy during the last half-year. Diets started healthier during and after treatment, but as they said it was difficult to give up sugar-containing products, no longer eat what they couldn't.