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Cancer - Breast

Nutrition Care Process (Toolkits)

Last Updated: 2023-11-21 Target Group: All Adults, All children(0-12 yr.), Youth(13-17 yr.)

Key Nutrition Issues

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The Third Expert Report on Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer: a Global Perspective provides evidence and recommendations on preventing and surviving cancer through diet, nutrition and physical activity (1).

This toolkit discusses the following key nutrition issues:
  • effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on nutritional, functional and clinical outcomes of individuals with cancer
  • a low iodine diet (e.g. ≤50 μg iodine/day) for adults with well-differentiated thyroid cancer prior to

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