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Nutrition and breast cancer: a literature review on prevention, treatment and recurrence
This 2019 review aimed to summarize the current evidence on dietary patterns and the consumption of specific food-stuffs/food-nutrients and their individual relationships with the incidence, recurrence and survival rates of breast cancers. This project was undertaken since the impact of dietary factors on breast cancer mortality and recurrence were not fully understood, although diet has been linked with higher risk of developing the cancer in the past. De Cicco et al. explain that a healthy dietary pattern (high intake of unrefined cereals, vegetables, fruit, nuts and olive oil, and moderate or low consumption of saturated fatty acids and red meat) might enhance overall probability of survival following breast cancer diagnosis. While the chemotherapy or radiotherapy that breast cancer patients receive can induce several symptoms that reduce quality of life, there are studies that have shown that nutritional interventions (such as nutritional counselling and EPA and/or DHA supplementation) during treatment might help lessen those side effects and improve therapeutic efficacy. Nutritional interventions may form a crucial component of the overall therapeutic approach for breast cancers. But large clinical trials are required to establish the efficacy of these interventions in cancer patients. [NPID: cancer, inflammation, neuroinflammation, breast cancer, female, women]
Year: 2019
