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Evidence based practice guidelines for the nutritional management of patients receiving radiation therapy
Author(s) -
Linda C. Tapsell,
Malcolm Riley,
Apd Melbourne,
Kristy Parsons,
Elisabeth Isenring,
J. Hill,
Graddip Nutr,
Dietitian Brisbane,
Wendy Davidson,
Teresa Brown,
Postgraddip Nutr,
Laure Queensland,
D Baumgärtner,
Kate Kaegi,
Dietitian Melbourne,
Victoria Reeves,
Susan Ash,
Shan Thomas,
Victoria Mcphee,
Dietitian Bendigo,
Victoria Bauer
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nutrition and dietetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1747-0080
pISSN - 1446-6368
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2008.00252.x
Subject(s) - radiation therapy , medicine , intensive care medicine , medical physics
FOREWORD:\udThese guidelines were developed following the publication\udof the Evidence based guidelines for the nutritional management of cancer cachexia. In workshops conducted around the country, many dietitians identified the need for guidelines on the management of malnutrition occurring with anticancer treatments. We have focused on radiation therapy treatment (patients may also be undergoing synchronous or sequential chemotherapy) for these guidelines as there have been several recent randomised controlled trials (RCTs) which have evaluated nutrition intervention. Studies evaluating the nutritional management of patients receiving chemotherapy alone are not included as there are no recently published RCTs. The older evidence does not demonstrate benefits with respect to survival or tumour response; however, the ability to draw conclusions is difficult due to study design limitations.1 When published nutrition RCTs in patients receiving chemotherapy become available these can be included in future reviews of these guidelines, and hence they will become broader guidelines for the nutritional management of patients receiving radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy treatment