Journal Article

Nutritional Factors during and after Cancer: Impacts on Survival and Quality of Life

Sébastien Salas, Isabelle Romieu, Bernard Srour, Paule Latino-Martel, Stéphane Schneider, Philippine Fassier, Raphaëlle Ancellin, Laure Dossus, Mathilde Touvier, Vanessa Cottet, Julie Ginhac, Marina Touillaud

2022

Overview

The French National Cancer Institute conducted a collective expertise study with researchers and clinical experts from the French Network for Nutrition And Cancer Research (NACRe Network). The objective was to update the state of knowledge on the impacts of nutritional factors on clinical endpoints during or after cancer. Data from 150 meta-analyses, pooled analyses or intervention trials and 93 cohort studies were examined; they concerned 8 nutritional factors, 6 clinical events and 20 cancer locations. This report shows that some nutritional factors have impacts on mortality and on the risks of recurrence or second primary cancer in cancer patients. Therefore, high-risk nutritional conditions can be encountered for certain cancer sites: from the diagnosis and throughout the health care pathways, weight loss (lung and esophageal cancers), malnutrition (lung, esophageal, colorectal, pancreatic, gastric and liver cancers), weight gain (colorectal, breast and kidney cancers) and alcohol consumption (upper aerodigestive cancers) should be monitored; and after cancer treatments, excess weight should be detected (colorectal, breast and kidney cancers). These situations require nutritional assessments, and even support or management by health care professionals, in the context of tertiary prevention. This report also highlights some limitations regarding the existing literature and some needs for future research.

• Publisher: MDPI AG,MDPI
• Subject: [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer / alcohol / alcohol drinking / Alcoholic beverages / Bibliographic literature / Body composition / Breast cancer / breasts / Cancer / Cancer research / Clinical outcomes / Colorectal Neoplasms / Diet / Dietary minerals / Dietary supplements / Drug dosages / Esophageal cancer / health services / Humans / Intervention / Kidney cancer / Kidney Neoplasms / kidneys / Life Sciences / liver / Liver cancer / lungs / Malnutrition / Malnutrition - prevention & control / Medical diagnosis / Medical prognosis / Medical research / MESH: Cancer / MESH: Colorectal Neoplasms / MESH: Humans / MESH: Kidney Neoplasms / MESH: Malnutrition / MESH: Neoplasms / MESH: Nutrition Assessment / MESH: Quality of Life / Meta-analysis / Mortality / nacre / Neoplasms / nutrition / Nutrition Assessment / Nutrition research / obesity / Parenteral nutrition / Quality of Life / Review / Smoking cessation / weight gain / weight loss