What should you pay attention to in your diet for breast cancer?

After a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, she must receive timely and effective treatment. During the treatment process, dietary adjustment is also very important. Through certain dietary health care, the body's resistance can be improved, especially during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Good dietary adjustment can alleviate the pain caused by treatment and reduce some symptoms caused by treatment.

(1) Providing easily digestible and absorbable protein foods, such as milk, eggs, fish, soy products, etc., can improve the body's anti-cancer ability. Among them, milk and eggs can improve protein disorder after radiotherapy.

(2) Eat an appropriate amount of sugar to supplement calories. Breast cancer patients who receive high-dose radiotherapy may have their sugar metabolism disrupted, glycogen levels sharply reduced, lactic acid in the blood increased and unable to be used; and insulin deficiency worsened. Therefore, supplementing glucose is more effective. In addition, it is advisable to eat more sugar-rich foods such as honey, rice, noodles, potatoes, etc. to supplement calories.

(3) Eat more foods that have anti-cancer effects, such as soft-shelled turtle, mushroom, black fungus, garlic, seaweed, mustard greens and royal jelly.

(4) Vitamins A and C can prevent cell malignancy and spread and increase the stability of epithelial cells. Vitamin C can also prevent general symptoms of radiation damage and increase white blood cell levels; vitamin E can promote cell division and delay cell aging; vitamin B1 can promote patients' appetite and alleviate symptoms caused by radiation therapy. Therefore, you should eat more foods rich in the above vitamins, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, sesame oil, cereals, beans and animal offal.

(5) Patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy should generally eat cold foods and drinks; however, patients who feel cold should eat hot foods.

(6) Diversify the diet, pay attention to color, aroma, taste and shape, and promote the patient's appetite; cook food by steaming, boiling and stewing, avoid eating foods that are difficult to digest, and refrain from drinking alcohol.