(1) Supply protein food that can be easily digested and absorbed, such as milk, eggs, fish, soybean products and so on, which can improve the body's anti-cancer power. Among them, milk and eggs can improve protein disorder after radiotherapy.
(2) Eat appropriate amount of sugar to supplement calories. High-dose radiation therapy patients, can make their body's sugar metabolism is destroyed, glycogen sharp decline, lactic acid in the blood increased, can not be reused; and insulin function insufficiency aggravated. So supplemental glucose is more effective, in addition, it is advisable to eat more honey, rice, noodles, potatoes and other sugar-rich foods to supplement calories.
(3) Eat more food with anti-cancer effect, such as turtle, mushroom, black fungus, garlic, seaweed, mustard and royal jelly and other food.
(4) Vitamins A and C have the effect of preventing cell malignancy and proliferation and increasing the stability of epithelial cells, vitamin C can also prevent the general symptoms of radiation damage and can make the level of white blood cells rise; Vitamin E can promote cell division and delay cellular senescence; Vitamin B1 can promote the patient's appetite and alleviate the symptoms caused by radiation therapy. Therefore, more food rich in the above vitamins should be eaten, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, sesame oil, cereals, beans and animal offal.
(5) Patients with radiotherapy and chemotherapy are generally advised to eat cool food and cold drinks, but patients with cold sensation are advised to eat hot food.
(6) Dietary diversity, pay attention to the color, aroma, taste and shape, to promote the patient's appetite; cooking food more steam, boiling, stewing methods, avoiding hard-to-digest food, forbidding alcohol.
(7) For those who have difficulties in chewing, swallowing, digestion and absorption and special nutrient deficiencies caused by various parts of tumors after surgery, different diets and supplementation of deficient nutrients can be given according to the situation, and compound nutrient diets can be given to increase the patient's resistance if necessary.