The diet after cancer surgery needs to be carried out in stages. Generally, according to the physical condition after surgery, it is divided into liquid diet period, semi-fluid period and regular diet period.

Within a few days after surgery, you generally have to eat liquid food, mainly milk, soy milk, juice, chicken soup, rice oil and other foods, 100 ml each time, and drink multiple times a day.

Semi-liquid food is mainly based on relatively soft and light noodle soup, noodle soup, gruel, thin egg custard, grain soy milk with residue, small wontons and other foods. You can add softer vegetables and tender small meatballs.

The general diet is basically not much different from ordinary people, but the principle is to eat a light diet and eat small meals frequently. It is necessary to supplement the necessary high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids. In carbohydrate foods, attention should be paid to increasing the proportion of potatoes and grains, accounting for the daily carbohydrates.

The proportion is 20%-30%, but it must be relatively soft and easy to digest.

It is difficult to adjust the diet of cancer patients during chemotherapy. The main reason is that the patient is irritable and has no appetite. Even hearing conversations related to food may cause nausea.

The diet at this time must be light with little or no oil, eat small amounts frequently, and drink more juice, porridge, oil and other foods.

Generally, chemotherapy reactions are more common within three days to half a month, especially the first three days, which are the most difficult. As age increases, chemotherapy reactions increase. However, some cancer doctors recommend that patients after the age of 70 do not need chemotherapy and adopt a conservative treatment plan.

Most cancers are not as scary as everyone imagines. In the past few years, some of the chief ministers I provided with nutritional support were still alive and well after suffering gastric cancer thirty years ago.

As long as you adjust your life and diet, add more high-quality protein, vitamins, and antioxidants in an appropriate amount, and achieve a balanced and reasonable dietary structure, delicious and nutritious meals can help cancer patients improve their quality of life and live a relaxed and happy life.

Five principles of postoperative diet for cancer patients: (1) The diet should be balanced: no partial eclipse, no food taboos, a combination of meat and vegetables, and a careful mix of foods. The more varieties of food you eat every day, the more nutrients you can get.

(2) To eliminate toxins, do not eat sour food (excluding sweet and sour taste), salted food, mildew, smoke, pigments, flavors, and strong alcoholic beverages.

(3) Use more natural and wild foods and less artificially reproduced and highly processed foods.

(4) Proper supplementation can improve the body's immune function. Certain tonics such as ginseng, white fungus, coix seed, red dates, etc. have direct or indirect cancer-suppressing and body-building effects.

(5) When cooking, the amount of oil used can be similar to that of normal people and should not be increased.

At the same time, we should pay attention to the color, aroma and taste of the dishes, use more cooking methods of steaming, boiling and stewing, and try to eat less fried and fried foods.

Breast cancer patients should pay attention to the following points in their postoperative diet: (1) Providing protein foods that are easy to digest and absorb, such as milk, eggs, fish, soy products, etc., can improve the body's anti-cancer ability.

Among them, milk and eggs can improve the protein disorder after radiotherapy.

(2) Eat an appropriate amount of sugar to supplement calories.

Patients undergoing high-dose radiation therapy can have their body's sugar metabolism destroyed, glycogen drops sharply, lactic acid in the blood increases and cannot be reused; and insulin deficiency worsens.

Therefore, the effect of glucose supplementation is better. In addition, it is advisable to eat more sugar-rich foods such as honey, rice, noodles, and potatoes to supplement calories.

(3) Eat more foods with anti-cancer effects, such as soft-shell turtles, mushrooms, black fungus, garlic, seaweed, mustard greens and royal jelly.

(4) Vitamins A and C can prevent malignant transformation and spread of cells and increase the stability of epithelial cells.

Vitamin C can also prevent the general symptoms of radiation damage and increase white blood cell levels; vitamin E can promote cell division and delay cell aging; vitamin B1 can promote patients' appetite and reduce symptoms caused by radiation therapy.

Therefore, you should eat more foods rich in the above vitamins, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, sesame oil, cereals, beans, and animal offal.

(5) Patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy should generally eat cold foods and cold drinks; however, patients who feel cold should eat hot foods.

(6) Eat a diversified diet, pay attention to color, aroma, taste, and shape to promote the patient's appetite; steam, boil, and stew methods should be used when cooking food, and indigestible foods and alcohol should be avoided.

(7) For patients who have difficulties in chewing, swallowing, digestion and absorption and lack of special nutrients after surgery for tumors in various parts of the country, they can be given different diets and supplement the missing nutrients according to the situation. If necessary, they can be given a diet with compound nutrients to enhance the patient's resistance.

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