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Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors

The role of a healthy diet in cancer prevention is well recognized. Recent data indicate that following the same advices can also improve cancer survivors’ quality of life. Breast cancer (BC) patients are commonly concerned about diet and nutrition and frequently express the need to obtain health-re...

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Autores principales: Caprara, Greta, Tieri, Maria, Fabi, Alessandra, Guarneri, Valentina, Falci, Cristina, Dieci, Maria Vittoria, Turazza, Monica, Ballardini, Bettina, Bin, Alessandra, Cinieri, Saverio, Vici, Patrizia, Montagna, Emilia, Zamagni, Claudio, Mazzi, Cristina, Modena, Alessandra, Marchetti, Fabiana, Verzè, Matteo, Ghelfi, Francesca, Titta, Lucilla, Nicolis, Fabrizio, Gori, Stefania
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.705927
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author Caprara, Greta
Tieri, Maria
Fabi, Alessandra
Guarneri, Valentina
Falci, Cristina
Dieci, Maria Vittoria
Turazza, Monica
Ballardini, Bettina
Bin, Alessandra
Cinieri, Saverio
Vici, Patrizia
Montagna, Emilia
Zamagni, Claudio
Mazzi, Cristina
Modena, Alessandra
Marchetti, Fabiana
Verzè, Matteo
Ghelfi, Francesca
Titta, Lucilla
Nicolis, Fabrizio
Gori, Stefania
author_facet Caprara, Greta
Tieri, Maria
Fabi, Alessandra
Guarneri, Valentina
Falci, Cristina
Dieci, Maria Vittoria
Turazza, Monica
Ballardini, Bettina
Bin, Alessandra
Cinieri, Saverio
Vici, Patrizia
Montagna, Emilia
Zamagni, Claudio
Mazzi, Cristina
Modena, Alessandra
Marchetti, Fabiana
Verzè, Matteo
Ghelfi, Francesca
Titta, Lucilla
Nicolis, Fabrizio
Gori, Stefania
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description The role of a healthy diet in cancer prevention is well recognized. Recent data indicate that following the same advices can also improve cancer survivors’ quality of life. Breast cancer (BC) patients are commonly concerned about diet and nutrition and frequently express the need to obtain health-related information and the will to change their diet and lifestyle. Hence, be aware of survivors’ dietary changes and information needs is crucial for healthcare professionals to guide them toward optimal lifestyle choices. In order to investigate eating habits changes in a BC survivors’ population, we conceived the cross-sectional multicentric study ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey. Data were collected from 684 patients, diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, in order to investigate their changes in food consumption, use of supplements, or the beginning of a specific diet, after BC diagnosis. We also examined the sources of information used and if any modification in their diets was reported to the oncologist. We primarily observed that patients increased their consumption of vegetables, pulses, nuts, fruits, wholemeal bread/pasta, grains and fish; while decreasing red and processed meat, refined bread/pasta, baked good and animal fat consumption. Survivors also reported the use of dietary supplements, mainly vitamins, aimed at counteracting therapies’ side effects. Changes in nutritional habits were often adopted without asking or informing the oncologist. Despite BC survivors made some positive changes in their nutritional habits, those modifications were mostly pursued by less than half of them, while the majority of patients consumed nutritional supplements after diagnosis. These results, as well as the failure to communicate with the physicians, reinforce the need to both improve the patient-healthcare professional relationship and to develop tailored nutrition counselling and intervention programs for cancer survivors.
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spelling pubmed-85963282021-11-18 Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors Caprara, Greta Tieri, Maria Fabi, Alessandra Guarneri, Valentina Falci, Cristina Dieci, Maria Vittoria Turazza, Monica Ballardini, Bettina Bin, Alessandra Cinieri, Saverio Vici, Patrizia Montagna, Emilia Zamagni, Claudio Mazzi, Cristina Modena, Alessandra Marchetti, Fabiana Verzè, Matteo Ghelfi, Francesca Titta, Lucilla Nicolis, Fabrizio Gori, Stefania Front Oncol Oncology The role of a healthy diet in cancer prevention is well recognized. Recent data indicate that following the same advices can also improve cancer survivors’ quality of life. Breast cancer (BC) patients are commonly concerned about diet and nutrition and frequently express the need to obtain health-related information and the will to change their diet and lifestyle. Hence, be aware of survivors’ dietary changes and information needs is crucial for healthcare professionals to guide them toward optimal lifestyle choices. In order to investigate eating habits changes in a BC survivors’ population, we conceived the cross-sectional multicentric study ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey. Data were collected from 684 patients, diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, in order to investigate their changes in food consumption, use of supplements, or the beginning of a specific diet, after BC diagnosis. We also examined the sources of information used and if any modification in their diets was reported to the oncologist. We primarily observed that patients increased their consumption of vegetables, pulses, nuts, fruits, wholemeal bread/pasta, grains and fish; while decreasing red and processed meat, refined bread/pasta, baked good and animal fat consumption. Survivors also reported the use of dietary supplements, mainly vitamins, aimed at counteracting therapies’ side effects. Changes in nutritional habits were often adopted without asking or informing the oncologist. Despite BC survivors made some positive changes in their nutritional habits, those modifications were mostly pursued by less than half of them, while the majority of patients consumed nutritional supplements after diagnosis. These results, as well as the failure to communicate with the physicians, reinforce the need to both improve the patient-healthcare professional relationship and to develop tailored nutrition counselling and intervention programs for cancer survivors. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8596328/ /pubmed/34804915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.705927 Text en Copyright © 2021 Caprara, Tieri, Fabi, Guarneri, Falci, Dieci, Turazza, Ballardini, Bin, Cinieri, Vici, Montagna, Zamagni, Mazzi, Modena, Marchetti, Verzè, Ghelfi, Titta, Nicolis and Gori https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Oncology
Caprara, Greta
Tieri, Maria
Fabi, Alessandra
Guarneri, Valentina
Falci, Cristina
Dieci, Maria Vittoria
Turazza, Monica
Ballardini, Bettina
Bin, Alessandra
Cinieri, Saverio
Vici, Patrizia
Montagna, Emilia
Zamagni, Claudio
Mazzi, Cristina
Modena, Alessandra
Marchetti, Fabiana
Verzè, Matteo
Ghelfi, Francesca
Titta, Lucilla
Nicolis, Fabrizio
Gori, Stefania
Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors
title Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors
title_full Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors
title_fullStr Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors
title_full_unstemmed Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors
title_short Results of the ECHO (Eating habits CHanges in Oncologic patients) Survey: An Italian Cross-Sectional Multicentric Study to Explore Dietary Changes and Dietary Supplement Use, in Breast Cancer Survivors
title_sort results of the echo (eating habits changes in oncologic patients) survey: an italian cross-sectional multicentric study to explore dietary changes and dietary supplement use, in breast cancer survivors
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.705927
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