This book provides information to help cancer survivors and patients make informed choices about their nutrition and improve their short-term and long-term health. This comprehensive resource outlines nutritional management recommendations for care prior to, during, and after treatment and addresses specific nutritional needs and complementary therapies that may be of help to a patient. This book is written by a variety of clinicians who not only care for cancer survivors and their caregivers but are also experts in the field of nutritional oncology.

Introduction to the nutritional management of oncology patients / Mary Marian, Susan Roberts -- Nutrition screening and assessment in oncology / Pamela Charney, Andreea Cranganu -- Nutrition support for oncology patients / M. Patricia Fuhrman -- Medical and radiation oncology / Carole Havrila, Paul W. Read, David Mack -- Surgical oncology / Maureen B. Huhmann, David August -- Nutrition and cancer prevention / Nicole Stendell-Hollis -- Esophageal and head and neck cancer / Elizabeth Isenring -- Breast cancer / Deborah Straub -- Reproductive cancers / Heather Hendrikson -- Prostate cancer / Natalie Ledesma -- Lung cancer / Jayne M. Camporeale, Susan Roberts -- Hematologic malignancies / Kim Robien -- Brain tumors / Cathy Scanlon -- Palliative care / Kelay Trentham -- Pharmacologic management of cancer cachexia : anorexia and other gastrointestinal toxicities associated with cancer treatments / Todd W. Mattox, Dawn E. Goetz -- Integrative oncology / Mary Marian.