Diet problems with cancer

Eating a balanced diet can help you cope with cancer and its treatments.

Cancer can cause changes to your body, making it hard to eat or digest food and use its nutrients.

Cancer treatments can affect your appetite and cause problems with eating, drinking and digestion.

The side effects of cancer and its treatments might cause problems with your eating, digestion and weight.

Medicines, soft diets, adding calories to your diet or tube feeding are some of the ways to manage diet problems.

Diet problems can happen when you have advanced cancer.

Having diet problems when you have cancer can affect you emotionally. But there are things you can do to help you cope.

There are lots of organisations, support groups and helpful books to help you cope with diet problems caused by cancer and its treatment.