Breast Cancer Diet
Patients with breast cancer should be flexible in their treatment and make efforts to eat and supplement nutrition before and after surgery. During the radiotherapy period, the patient’s diet should be light and palatable, and should not include a lot of thick and greasy food.
Reasonable arrangement and smart cooking
After completing the treatment plan, it is necessary for breast cancer patients to choose foods that are beneficial to the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. Geng Guojun, Department of Chest and Breast Surgery, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Eat more seafood: seaweed, kelp, jellyfish, sea cucumber, tamari, oyster, etc.
Beans: mung beans, adzuki beans, mung bean sprouts, etc.
Vegetables: taro, water chestnut, wild rice, winter melon, portobello mushrooms, monkey mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, tomatoes, etc.
Fruits: oranges, apples, hawthorn, fresh kiwi, etc.
Others: turtle, snapper, black fish, barley, wood ear and other foods.
Pre-operative diet for breast cancer
Breast cancer patients generally suffer from blood loss, postoperative loss of appetite, decreased digestive and absorption functions, and poor stool, resulting in malnutrition, which affects the recovery of the body after surgery, and reasonable regulation of the pre-operative diet for breast cancer can ensure smooth treatment and lay a good foundation for postoperative recovery.
Pre-operative breast cancer diet principle one
High-calorie and high-carbohydrate food intake
High carbohydrate diet can supply breast cancer patients with enough calories, reduce protein consumption, prevent hypoglycemia, and also protect liver cells from anesthetic damage. In addition, it can increase the body resistance and increase calories to compensate for the caloric energy consumption caused by insufficient food intake of breast cancer patients after surgery.
Pre-operative breast cancer diet principle II
Consume foods with high protein
Breast cancer patients must consume enough protein. Lack of protein in the diet can cause malnutrition and edema, which is detrimental to wound healing and recovery after breast cancer surgery. A high-protein diet can alleviate the excessive protein consumption caused by certain diseases, reduce post-operative complications and enable breast cancer patients to recover as soon as possible.
Pre-operative breast cancer diet principle 3
High vitamin diet
Vitamin A can promote tissue regeneration and accelerate wound healing; vitamin K is mainly involved in the coagulation process and can reduce intraoperative and postoperative bleeding; B vitamin deficiency can cause metabolic disorders and affect wound healing and tolerance; vitamin C can reduce capillary permeability, reduce bleeding and promote tissue regeneration and wound healing. Therefore, breast cancer patients must eat more vitamin-rich fruits (or fruit food), vegetables (or vegetable food), or supplemental vitamin tablets before surgery.
The above summarized pre-surgical dietary principles for breast cancer patients refer to a period of time before surgery and not to be consumed close to the time of surgery. Generally breast cancer patients should fast 12 hours before surgery, and should abstain from water 4-6 hours before surgery to prevent vomiting or complications of aspiration pneumonia during anesthesia or surgery, and if there are food residues in the gastrointestinal tract, it will also affect the smooth progress of surgery.
Diet during treatment
During the treatment period, white ginseng or American ginseng should be taken depending on the condition, and after the treatment is over, every winter, ginseng can still be taken as a supplement.
Diet should be moderate, not excessive
Excessive nutrition and obesity have a negative impact on the treatment of breast cancer. In the long-term life of breast cancer patients after treatment, they should adhere to the principle of diet in moderation but not in excess, while ensuring nutritional needs. The total daily intake of calories, fats and sugars should be well known, and overeating and binge drinking should be avoided.
Dietary principles for breast cancer patients
1. Emphasize balanced nutrition and focus on supporting and supplementing deficiency
Internal deficiency” of breast cancer patients is the main contradiction in the process of disease occurrence and development. It causes cancer because of deficiency and deficiency because of cancer. The purpose of food therapy is to ensure that breast cancer patients have enough nutrition to improve the body’s ability to resist disease and promote their recovery. Therefore, the Nei Jing says: “Food and meat, fruits and vegetables should be nourished to the fullest, without making too much of them, which will hurt their righteousness.” Under the guidance of the general principle of supporting the righteousness and nourishing the deficiency, the dietary treatment for breast cancer patients should be nutritious, diversified and balanced. As stated in Nei Jing, “Five grains are nourishing, five fruits are helpful, five animals are beneficial, and five vegetables are sufficient.” The loss of bias, it is harmful.
2. Familiarize with the nature and taste of food and emphasize on food identification
Like other diseases, breast cancer patients have different yin and yang, cold and heat, deficiency and reality. Food is also different from hot, cold, warm and cool, pungent, sweet, bitter, sour and salty. The five tastes of food have their own destinations: sweet to the spleen, pungent to the lung, salty to the kidney, bitter to the heart and sour to the liver. Pungent taste is warm and dispersing, such as ginger and onion; sweet taste is moderate, such as yam, gorgonzola and syrup; light taste is percolating, such as winter melon and coix seed; sour taste is astringent, such as umeboshi and hawthorn; salty taste is soft and firm, such as seaweed, kombu and oyster.
3.Select anti-cancer foods and strive to be targeted
Medicine and food have the same origin, and some foods have both therapeutic and anti-cancer effects, so they can be selected and applied in a targeted manner. Folk use it with clove and persimmon to treat esophageal cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, etc. Experiments have confirmed its inhibitory effect on transplanted tumors caused by carcinogenic viruses in mice. Foods in daily life such as garlic, soy products, green tea, etc. are also good anti-cancer agents.
Diet after breast cancer surgery
Post-operative breast cancer patients suffer from low appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea due to the application of some other drugs for treatment. As the disease has already caused a great impact on the body, breast cancer patients’ body is even weaker after surgery. At this time, the post-operative diet for breast cancer patients is especially important. What are the considerations of diet after breast cancer surgery?
In terms of the post-operative diet of breast cancer patients, there are many social sayings such as “no chicken”, “no egg”, “no crab”, etc. Patients and their families are at a loss as to what to eat after breast cancer surgery. Patients and their family members are at a loss of what to eat after surgery. The post-operative dietary considerations for breast cancer patients are as follows.
Post-operative diet for breast cancer patients: Diversified diet and balanced nutrition
Balanced diet is the best way for cancer patients to maintain normal weight after surgery. The diet should be balanced, diversified, not partial, not taboo, meat and vegetable, coarse and fine. The diet should be balanced, diversified, not biased, not taboo, with a good mix of meat and vegetables, coarse and fine.
Post-operative diet for breast cancer patients 2: Reasonable taboos
Breast cancer patients should avoid eating raw onion and garlic, pork, pumpkin, alcoholic wine, and foods that are spicy, fried, greasy, thick and fishy, stale, moldy, and other foods that help fire and produce phlegm and hinder spleen movement.
Diet regulation after breast cancer surgery III.
After breast cancer surgery, products that benefit qi and nourish blood, regulate qi and disperse knots can be given to consolidate the therapeutic effect for recovery. Such as yam powder, spinach, loofah, kelp, hawthorn, rose hips, etc.
Post-operative dietary regimen for breast cancer IV.
When breast cancer is treated with radiotherapy after surgery, it is easy to consume yin and fluid, so it is advisable to take sweet and cool nourishing food. For example, almond cream, loquat fruit, white pear, plum, lotus root, banana, olive, etc.
Post-operative diet for breast cancer five.
When chemotherapy is given after breast cancer surgery, if digestive tract reaction and bone marrow suppression occur, foods that can harmonize the stomach and lower the rebellion, benefit qi and nourish blood, such as fresh ginger juice, fresh juice, japonica rice, white lentils, black fungus, sunflower seeds, etc. can be consumed.
The following dietary recipes for post-operative breast cancer patients are available for reference.
Post-breast cancer diet recipe 1: Spinach with ginger
Ingredients: 300g of spinach, 3g of fresh ginger, 3g of salt, 5g of soy sauce, 6g of sesame oil and 3g of pepper oil.
Practice: remove the yellow leaves of spinach, wash, cut into 6-7cm size sections. Peel the fresh ginger and cut it into fine shreds. Add water to the pot, put it on the fire and boil, add the spinach and blanch it slightly, take it out and control the water, squeeze it gently, put it in a plate and let it cool, add the fresh ginger and seasoning together with the cold spinach, mix it well and taste it.
Breast cancer post-operative dietary regimen recipe 2: boiled white beans
Ingredients: 500g white beans, 40g peel, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Directions: Rinse and soak the white beans first. Cut the peel into pieces and set aside. Pour white beans and peel into a pot, add appropriate amount of water and refined salt, boil them on high fire first, then change to low fire and boil them, when the white beans are rotten, mix in MSG.
Post-operative dietary regimen for breast cancer recipe 3: groundnut porridge
Ingredients: groundnut 300g, chestnut rice 150g.
Directions: Clean the groundnut, steam it, peel it and cut it into 3cm pieces with a knife. Wash the chestnut rice and set aside. Put the cleaned chestnut rice into a pot, add water, boil it with high fire first, then change to low fire and continue to boil, when the rice is to be cooked, add the groundnut pieces and cook it into porridge.
The diet of breast cancer patients after surgery is very important for the recovery of breast cancer patients. We hope that breast cancer patients should strictly follow the above mentioned points in their diet after surgery to achieve early healing.
Diet during chemotherapy for breast cancer
The traditional concept is that breast cancer spreads in a certain order of time and distance. Recent biological studies have shown that breast cancer grows from single cell division and multiplication to a lump of 1cm in diameter for at least 3 years, which provides enough time for systemic blood dissemination, thus systemic treatment has been increasingly emphasized. The application of systemic chemotherapy before and after surgery to kill subclinical metastases is a more mature treatment method to improve the therapeutic effect and increase the survival rate. Especially in cases of axillary lymph node metastases, the efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy before and after surgery is more obvious. Although the exact efficacy of chemotherapy has been fully affirmed, some patients discontinue treatment because of intolerance due to many toxic side effects of chemotherapy, such as gastrointestinal reactions (nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, abdominal pain, diarrhea), bone marrow suppression (decreased white blood cells, decreased red blood cells, decreased platelets), gastrointestinal mucosal ulcers, hair loss, abnormal liver and kidney functions, etc.
How to better guide patients through the chemotherapy period smoothly and increase the efficacy? In addition to psychological guidance, dietary guidance can also play a role. Due to the special food culture, patients in Guangdong have many dietary contraindications in their daily life and always consult clinicians: “What can I eat and what can’t I eat?” In fact, for tumor patients, according to the theory of Chinese medicine, “if you have stomach qi, you will live; if you don’t have stomach qi, you will die”, and the important expression of stomach qi is “whether you can eat or not”. Therefore, for patients in the chemotherapy period, it is common to have light mouth, poor nausea, vomiting and even inability to eat, so there is no need to have too many taboos during this period. After “there is no need to have too many taboos, you can eat when you want. Only eat well enough to eat to adhere to the amount of chemotherapy completed on time to ensure the effectiveness of chemotherapy! The following are some dietary tips that will hopefully help to increase the appetite of the patients.
(1) Change the recipe, change the cooking method: a new food can promote appetite, for example, patients who often eat pork-based food can be replaced by eating fish, lamb, chicken, etc., and some turtles and snappers can be eaten if possible. Changing the cooking method so that the food has a different color and flavor can also increase appetite. But no matter what kind of food, cooking must reach the degree that the food is more cooked and rotten, so that it can be digested and absorbed smoothly. At the same time, meat is more difficult to digest, cooking should add more ginger peel, etc. to facilitate appetite for digestion.
(2) medicine meal appetite and spleen: ① hawthorn diced meat: hawthorn 100g, lean pork (or beef) 1000g, vegetable oil 250g, and mushrooms, ginger, onions, pepper, wine, monosodium glutamate, sugar each appropriate amount. First cut the lean meat into slices, oil explosion, and then use hawthorn seasoning fontanel and burn dry, can be eaten. Can both appetite and anti-cancer. ② Astragalus yam soup: 30g of astragalus, add water and boil for half an hour, remove the slag, add 60g of Huaiyao (Huaiyao should be soaked in salt water and rinsed into the meal), then boil for 30 minutes, add sugar (add honey for constipation) is ready. Take it once a day in the morning and once in the evening. Has a beneficial effect on the blood, increase appetite, improve gastrointestinal absorption function.
(3) Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits with high vitamin content: such foods can not only increase resistance, but also increase appetite. Some patients believe that raw and cold food should be avoided, but fruits and vegetables should be treated as appropriate, eat some light and refreshing raw cold vegetables and fruits, especially during chemotherapy and radiotherapy, has an obvious appetizing effect, but such as a light mouth pan-clear saliva should be slightly heated and served warm, and at the same time should not be overfed.
(4) chemotherapy patients often like to eat fragrant heavy food, this time can often give ginger fried rice, and even a small amount of pickled vegetables, curd, chili peppers with meals such as small dishes for patients to improve appetite is very beneficial, at this time “rice is steel” is really hard truth.
(5) Exchange of dietary experience among patients: Exchange of dietary experience among patients can not only complement each other, but also help to increase appetite, which is very necessary for cancer patients. The following is a categorized list of dietary regimens and methods for toxic reactions to chemotherapy.
Dietary modifications for decreased blood count
Chemotherapy can cause poor bone marrow regeneration, especially the decline of white blood cells is most obvious. In order to effectively prevent the decline of blood image, patients should supplement a high protein diet during chemotherapy, such as milk, soybeans, lean meat, pig’s feet, sea cucumber, fish, animal liver and red dates, peanuts, walnuts, black fungus, carrots, adzuki beans, etc. Black fish, beef, animal boiled gum peptones such as donkey skin gum (Agaricus blazei) and pig skin gum (peptones of meat skin), also help to raise white blood cells. Deer antler, purple river carp, ginseng, etc. can also be reasonably applied under the guidance of TCM. Chinese medicine attaches the greatest importance to the use of organs to nourish organs, therefore, animal bone marrow, such as bone marrow stew from cattle, sheep and pigs, or diet made from chicken, duck, goose and pig blood, can also be increased in moderation during chemotherapy. You can also eat more five black foods, such as black sesame, black rice, black beans, black dates, etc. Chinese medicine believes that “black can enter the kidneys”, so the five black foods can nourish the kidneys and fill the marrow, which can help improve the blood picture.
Dietary management of toxic reactions in the digestive tract
Chemotherapy can cause oral mucositis, manifested as mucosal congestion, edema, ulcers, pain and so on. At this time, it is necessary to keep the mouth clean, brush the teeth after eating, and supplement the diet with high nutritional fluids or office fluids, such as lotus seed soup, golden ear and snow ear soup, milk, soybean milk, carp soup and so on. Avoid overheating, too acidic and stimulating diet when eating, acute inflammation can contain ice fast to reduce inflammatory exudation, ulcers can be used to add 20 ml of honey to grinded vitamin C 0.1 grams, oral, 2 to 4 times a day. Snow lamb can also be a try.
Chemotherapy damage to the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, poor nausea, etc. can occur. At this time, you can eat appetizing food, such as hawthorn, lentils, yam, white radish, mushrooms, etc. At the same time, eat less and more meals to avoid the feeling of satiety. Chew and swallow slowly, do not lie down 1 hour after meals, you can spread out, do not eat water 1 hour before chemotherapy, eat such as nausea and vomiting can be taken orally fresh ginger juice 3 ~ 5 ml. At this time should not drink too much soup.
Dietary regimen and prevention of liver and kidney injury
Some chemotherapy drugs can cause liver damage and elevated transaminases. At this time, you should eat more bitter melon, mung bean sprouts, tea, shiitake mushrooms, Agaricus blazei, morel mushrooms, purple mushrooms, Yunzhi monkey mushrooms and other mushroom foods (mushrooms are cold and should be used with ginger and wolfberry), eat more vitamin-rich fruits, such as kiwi, peach, apple, grapes, etc., and drink more green tea, oolong tea, honey water. If the liver function is seriously damaged, you can use 20 grams of Wu Wei Zi and 20 grams of Chinese wolfberry to stew carp soup.
Some chemotherapy drugs can also cause kidney damage, such as cisplatin. Clinically, drink more water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits (alkaline food) when using such drugs. Once kidney damage occurs, protein intake should be limited, combined with edema, less salt should be eaten, more animal kidneys, oyster fish, spinach and red amaranth, and also more water-rich and diuretic foods, such as watermelon, cucumber, winter melon, loofah, etc.
Diet during side effects after chemotherapy for breast cancer
Breast cancer chemotherapy drugs have different degrees of toxic side effects, they kill tumor cells and normal tissues at the same time, especially the blood and lymphatic tissue cells which grow and develop vigorously in human body. These cells and tissues are the important immune defense system of human body. If the immune system of human body is destroyed, cancer may develop rapidly and cause serious consequences. Although the side effects of radiotherapy are lighter than those of chemotherapy, most tumor patients will not only have their cancer cells destroyed after receiving radiotherapy, but also have their white blood cells severely damaged and their immunity reduced, resulting in systemic symptoms such as mental depression, decreased appetite, physical weakness and fatigue, and local reactions of skin and mucous membranes. Therefore, it is crucial for breast cancer chemoradiotherapy patients to improve the immunity of the body.
Introduction of Maimou Difuxian
D-fraction is the Chinese name of D-fraction, which is a protein polysaccharide extracted from the seeds of D-fraction, separated and refined, with the ratio of polysaccharide to protein being 7:3 and the average molecular weight being 1 million. The polysaccharide part consists of β-(1-6) glucan with β-(1-3) side chains and β-(1-3) glucan with β-(1-6) side chains.
Antitumor effects of Maifuxian 1. Activate immune function 2. Induce natural apoptosis of cancer cells 3. Inhibit growth of cancer cells 4. Prevent metastasis of cancer cells 5. Prevent normal cancer cells from becoming cancerous 6. Synergize with anti-cancer drugs 7. Reduce side effects of chemotherapy Efficacy of Maifuxian series products for patients in different periods
1. Just diagnosed, but not yet undergoing surgery or radiotherapy: it can activate the immune system, which is expected to inhibit metastasis and stabilize the disease while killing cancer cells, so as to buy favorable time for subsequent treatment such as surgery.
2.During radiotherapy after surgery: it can enhance immunity, improve physical fitness and minimize the toxic side effects of radiotherapy; at the same time, it is expected to have synergistic effects with some traditional anti-cancer drugs to enhance the effect of chemotherapy.
3.After surgery and radiotherapy: it can effectively maintain the normal immune function of the human body, enhance the physique, and prevent possible metastasis and recurrence.
4. late stage critical patients: it can reduce pain, improve appetite, slow down the development of the disease, prolong survival time and improve quality of life.
Breast cancer care in terms of diet
Suitable
1. It is advisable to eat more foods with anti-breast cancer effect, such as seahorse, horseshoe crab (hòu), cobra meat, sperm whale oil, toad meat, crab, clam, oyster, tortoiseshell meat, kelp, asparagus and stone flowering vegetables.
2. It is advisable to eat more foods that have the ability to enhance immunity and prevent recurrence, including mulberry, kiwi, asparagus, pumpkin, jujube, onion, leek, barley, beans, yam, shiitake mushroom, shrimp skin, crab, mackerel, prawns, and snake.
3. swelling is recommended to eat barley, loofah, adzuki beans, taro, grapes, lychee, water chestnut, carp, pond lice, shark, kelp, loach, yellow catfish, snail.
4. swelling and pain, nipple retraction is appropriate to eat fennel, green onion, shrimp, sea dragon, smear oil whale, orange cake, Cephalotaxus (fěi), grapefruit, horseshoe crab.
Avoid
1. Avoid smoking, alcohol, coffee, cocoa.
2. Avoid spicy pepper, ginger, cinnamon and other spicy stimulating food.
3. Avoid fatty, fried, moldy, pickled food.
4. Avoid hairy foods such as rooster.