Nutritional Care of the person living with cancer

Purpose

To gain confidence in providing nutritional care to the cancer patient prior to and post treatment (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery) for both radical and palliative patients.

Learning Outcomes

• Discussion of the causes and contributing factors of malnutrition and nutrition related problems requiring intervention from a diagnosis of cancer.
• Understand the nutritional consequences resulting from treatments, chemo, radiotherapy and surgery.
• The role of the dietitian in treating patients with a cancer diagnosis, radical and palliative.
• Employment of food first strategies to reduce supplement use.
• Identify when enteral feeding should be considered in patients and the steps in transitioning from enteral to oral for diagnosis such as UGI and H&N cancers.

Audience

Band 5-7 dietitians

Method

One day programme delivered face to face

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