Is a Neutropenic Diet Necessary for Cancer Patients?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-06-03

Immunocompromised patients, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, are often denied fresh fruits and vegetables to ostensibly protect them against foodborne illness.

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Unfortunately there’s an inertia in medicine that can result in medical practice that is at odds with the available evidence. Sometimes this disconnect can have devastating consequences. See, for example, Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evidence-based-medicine-or-evidence-biased/) and The Tomato Effect (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-tomato-effect/).

The reason it is so important to straighten out the neutropenic diet is that fruits and vegetables may actually improve cancer survival:
• Raw Broccoli and Bladder Cancer Survival (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/raw-broccoli-and-bladder-cancer-survival/)
• Breast Cancer Survival Vegetable (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-survival-vegetable/)
• Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-cancer-survival-the-av-ratio/)

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