Dietary taboos for patients with endometrial cancer

Endometrial cancer is a group of epithelial malignant tumors that occur in the endometrium and are more common in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. Endometrial cancer is one of the most common female reproductive system tumors, with nearly 200,000 new cases each year, and is the third most common gynecological malignancy leading to death (after ovarian cancer and cervical cancer). Its onset is closely related to lifestyle, and diet has a great impact on the condition of this disease, so patients need to pay attention to their diet.

Patients with endometrial cancer should pay attention to their diet:

(1) Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food.

(2) Avoid eating fatty, fried, moldy, or pickled foods.

(3) Avoid warm foods such as mutton, leek, dog meat, pepper, ginger, cinnamon, etc.

(4) Avoid eating irritating foods such as roosters.

Patients with endometrial cancer need to pay attention to the following in terms of diet:

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-cancer effects, such as thistle, melon, water chestnut, coix seed, fig fruit, black plum, burdock, oyster, turtle, and seahorse.

(2) People with bleeding should eat shark fin, sea cucumber, mackerel, black fungus, shiitake mushroom, mushroom, mussels and broad beans.

(3) People with edema should eat sturgeon, ulva, red beans, corn, carp, dace, loach, clam, pangasius, duck meat, lettuce, and coconut milk.

(4) In case of lumbago, it is advisable to eat lotus seeds, walnut meat, coix seed, leek, plum, chestnut, taro, soft-shelled turtle, jellyfish, royal jelly, horseshoe crab and swimming crab.

(5) If you have excessive leucorrhea, you should eat squid, mussels, clams, razor clams, oysters, turtles, jellyfish, sheep pancreas, sparrows, cowpeas, ginkgo nuts, walnuts, lotus seeds, water chestnuts, and celery.

(6) Foods that prevent and treat the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy: tofu, pork liver, blue carp, crucian carp, cuttlefish, duck, beef, frog, hawthorn, black plum, mung bean, and fig.