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Cancer Cookbook launched for Patients With Swallowing Difficulties

20 May 2016

深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork and Breakthrough Cancer Research have launched a cookbook for cancer patients experiencing chewing or swallowing difficulties. The book, entitled 鈥楨ating Well with swallowing difficulties in cancer,鈥� will be available free of charge to cancer patients throughout Ireland.

Following the award-winning 鈥�Good Nutrition for Cancer Recovery鈥� cookbook, the same team of oncologists, dieticians and chefs based in 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork (UCC) and Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), developed a 144 page cookbook with 60 recipes. Difficulties chewing and swallowing food affect many cancer patients suffering from cancer of the mouth, throat, neck, oesophagus, and stomach and eating frequently becomes an enormous challenge for these patients. Critically, weight loss during a cancer patient鈥檚 treatment can not only have a serious negative impact on their quality of life, but directly impacts on their tolerance to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery.

The team behind the cookbook include Dr. Aoife Ryan, Ms Fiona Dwyer and Ms Ruth Elliot from UCC with input from Dr. Derek Power, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Cork and Mercy 深夜亚洲福利久久 Hospitals and Ms Anne O鈥機onnor and Ms Jane Healy, lecturers in the Culinary Arts in CIT. Dr. Aoife Ryancomments that: 鈥�If you鈥檝e ever watched someone you love suffer from cancer then you know that one of the side effects of cancer is weight loss. This weight loss can be very dramatic affects up to 80% of cancer patients. Weight loss can be especially problematic in patients with cancers of their head and neck, throat, oesophagus, and stomach where patients have difficulties chewing and swallowing food.  Scientific studies on cancer patients who lose weight have clearly demonstrated that it negatively impacts their quality of life, reduces their ability to tolerate chemotherapy and those that lose more than 10% of their pre-illness weight unfortunately die much faster than patients who maintain their weight鈥�.

(Ms Fiona Dwyer of 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, Dr Aoife Ryan, Dietitian and Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, Jane Healy, Culinary Arts Lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology, and Dr Derek Power, Consultant Medical Oncologist at Mercy and Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Hospitals. P: E Curtin)

Dr. Derek Power comments that: 鈥淢aintaining patient weight during cancer treatment is a huge challenge, and eating nourishing meals, and eating often, is important no matter what weight they are. Research has shown that patients who lose a lot of muscle are susceptible to more toxic side-effects to their chemotherapy, and regrettably their treatments often have to be reduced or stopped earlier than planned.   As a cancer specialist patients ask me daily how they can stop losing weight, and what they can eat when they can鈥檛 swallow food easily -- Unfortunately doctors do not really have any medications that safely stimulate appetite or cause weight gain at present, so it is our hope that this cookbook will assist cancer patients in the challenging task of meeting their nutritional requirements as they battle cancer.鈥�

The benefit of these recipes in the day-to-day life of cancer patients undergoing treatment is captured by Bobby Kerr, of Insomina Coffee Chain, 深夜亚洲福利久久talk and Dragon鈥檚 Den, who comments that "As someone who lost close to four stone during my cancer treatment I know only too well about this problem. I would have really appreciated a resource such as this cookbook but am delighted that it will now be available to others struggling with this problem. It's a real struggle to find and swallow food with enough nutritional value to enable continued treatment. This book really fills a gap for patients."

Emily Hourican, Journalist and Author, has also added support to the launch of  鈥�Eating Well with swallowing difficulties in cancer鈥�, who states that 鈥淥ne of the many horrors I experienced during my cancer treatmentwas trying to eat with no appetite, with nausea, with the very real possibility of vomiting it all up again. Eventually, in order to get a decent amount of calories into me and keep them down, a feeding tube was needed.  For people suffering from cancer, it is not only the cancer but the collateral damage to your body which also undermines your body and its normal activities such as eating and taking in vital nutrients. The book, produced by UCC and Breakthrough Cancer Research, will really help patients in this area and I am sure that I would have benefited from having a copy myself while going through my treatment.鈥�

The recipes contained within the cookbook are simple, nourishing and enjoyable --颅颅颅颅 more importantly, all of the recipes are easy to chew, swallow and were created specifically for patients who are losing weight. 10,000 copies of the book are available free of charge to cancer patients through their hospitals, and an e-book is also available from .