common causes of malnutrition in cancer patients

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Healthy food is important for cancer patients. Healthy eating habits are important during cancer treatment. Cancer can change the way the body uses food. Cancer and cancer treatments may affect nutrition. Loss of appetite and cachexia are common causes of malnutrition in cancer patients. It is important to treat weight loss caused by cancer and its treatment. Cancer begins with the cells. Usually cell grows, divide and then die. Sometimes cells may undergo mutation process and begins to grow, divide faster than normal cells. In the process of cell growth and dividing, new cells will be replacing with old cells and die. But in the case of the abnormal cell the new cells will grow when the body doesn’t need them and old cells doesn’t die when it should die. These abnormal cells clump together forms tumors. Advance in Cancer Prevention addresses all types of cancer, how cancer forms in the body and their prevention. It focuses on Cancer Vaccines, Chemotherapy, Radioactive Iodine Therapy, Breast Reconstruction Surgery, Mamography, Chemoprevention,aromatase inhibitors, Scintimammography, Oncoplastic surgery, Sumoylation, Dietry Supplements, Cancer Screening, Cancer and Nutrition, Exercise and Cancer, Alternative Cancer Medicines, Stem cell transplants for cancer prevention, Naturopathic Treatments, Clinical Naturopathy, Cancer Prevention from nuts.