Dietitians
The role of the Cancer Dietitian
Cancer and its treatments can have a negative impact on your appetite and ability to eat, which can often result in unintentional weight loss.
Some people may experience issues relating to digestion, taste changes, swallowing, fatigue, and others may experience weight gain.
The role of the Dietitian is to provide tailored and practical dietary advice to patients and their family or carers at all stages of their cancer journey and beyond.
Dietitians help to provide effective care by monitoring patients throughout treatment and working closely with other members of the Multidisciplinary team.
If you are underweight, losing a significant amount of weight or are struggling with your diet you may be referred to a Dietitian.
When you attend your appointments your nurse or doctor will assess whether you need to see a Dietitian and will make a referral for you.
Useful websites
We advise our patients not to use internet search engines to find out about diet and cancer as some information online is not accurate.
We recommend the following websites which contain information which is based on scientific evidence.
Diet sheets
The following diet sheets can be downloaded, alternatively a member of staff in the cancer centre Macmillan information lounge can print information for you when you attend the cancer centre:
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- Alcohol – Food Fact Sheet
- Are you feeling full?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Eating when you have a Duodenal Stent
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Food First as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Has your send of taste changed?
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Homemade nutritional booster recipes
- IDDSI level 4 – Puree Diet
- IDDSI level 6 – Soft and bite-sized food
- Low Fibre Diet Sheet
- Nourishing milky drinks
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
Contact details for the Cancer Dietitian: 01908 996 563
Last Modified: 2:47pm 21/06/2023