Let's Talk Chemo: Nutrition and eating well

In this video series, we’ll review important information about chemotherapy treatment to help you understand more and know what to expect when coming in for your chemotherapy treatment. We hope you find these a useful part of the journey into survivorship.

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My husband had radiotherapy his larynx with pain on swallowing and inability to get adequate nutrition. Other than this, he was low-normal weight had NO health issues. The cancer centre dietician was just utterly stupid: so embedded in the low fat dogma that the smoothie recipes she gave him were based on skimmed milk and he would have had to consume HUGE quantities. I made whole milk/cream/whey protein powder/frozen fruit versions and made soft scrambled eggs or pureed soups with cream and butter added. We didn't return to see her.