Dietary considerations during radiotherapy for breast cancer

Breast cancer is one of the diseases that women worry about. It causes great harm to patients. Radiotherapy is one of the methods to treat cancer, and breast cancer is no exception. There are many things to pay attention to during radiotherapy for breast cancer, especially in terms of diet. The following are the dietary principles during radiotherapy for breast cancer.

What to eat during radiotherapy for breast cancer:

1. Food choices should include foods that nourish yin, promote the production of body fluids, clear away heat and reduce internal heat, such as bitter melon, carrots, tomatoes, lotus roots, jellyfish, cabbage, etc. In addition, you should eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish blood and replenish qi, such as barley porridge, hawthorn, eggs, pork liver, stewed fish, fresh fish, etc., to improve appetite and enhance physical strength. At the same time, take (life-protecting element) to increase immunity and stabilize white blood cells, enhance the effect of radiotherapy, and quickly restore physical strength.

2. During chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery, if gastrointestinal reactions and bone marrow suppression occur, you can eat foods that soothe the stomach, reduce reflux, replenish qi and nourish blood, such as fresh ginger juice, fresh fruit juice, glutinous rice, white lentils, black fungus, sunflower seeds, etc.

3. Reasonably arrange the time of diet and radiotherapy: Radiotherapy can often cause digestive tract reactions such as nausea and vomiting, so the diet should be arranged reasonably during radiotherapy. On the day of radiotherapy, the diet should be light and delicious; intravenous radiotherapy is performed on an empty stomach, so you should eat 3 hours before radiotherapy, when the food has been basically digested and emptied. After the end of radiotherapy, eat dinner later to reduce the symptoms of nausea and vomiting.

4. Diverse diet and balanced nutrition: The diet should be balanced, diverse, not partial to certain foods, not taboo, and a combination of meat and vegetables, coarse and fine foods. When cooking, use steaming, boiling, and stewing more often, and try to eat less fried food.

What should you pay attention to in your diet:

1. Eat some fresh fruits appropriately: Fresh fruits such as watermelon, kiwi, apricot, apple, pear, strawberry, etc. are rich in vitamin C, vitamin B and other vitamins, and have certain anti-cancer effects.

2. Eat more foods rich in anti-cancer ingredients: Studies have shown that the following types of food have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on breast cancer patients. Cabbage, Chinese cabbage, kale, garlic, onion, tofu, soy milk, bean sprouts, asparagus, kelp, seaweed, tomatoes and other foods are rich in anti-cancer ingredients, and regular consumption has certain benefits for breast cancer patients.

3. Adequate nutrition: Breast cancer patients are generally weak. During radiotherapy, they should appropriately increase their intake of protein and sugar, eat less high-fat, high-cholesterol foods, especially ensure protein intake, eat more lean pork, beef, chicken or fish, etc.; avoid fried foods, eat less pickled foods, and strictly prohibit the consumption of strong condiments.

Every female friend will be afraid of breast cancer, so it is very important to choose good food tonic when recovering from the disease.