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She won't eat. How can we improve her appetite?
Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Jun 13 12:53pm | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
I had trouble eating. We found this great cookbook - The Cancer Fighting Kitchen, written by a chef who solely works with cancer patients.
It had great recipes for all types of cancers - how to handle throat and stomach cancer treatments, food for infusion days, adding foods like flax that have been shown in studies to improve outcomes in breast cancer, etc.
It also had methods to adjust taste due to chemo and other treatments distorting taste of foods.
I don't know how old she is or in what stage of treatment but hopefully this will be a small help.
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Thank you for your reply. She's 45 with a glioblastoma, 4th stage, though we really haven't been told much about stage ... only that it's very, very bad. Thanks to God and a super medical team at Duke, we've been given 8 more months with her since her diagnosis. She does have some issues, but we're still able to visit and talk with her at home. She's lost her short-term memory and is paralyzed on her left side, but her loss of appetite concerns us the most. She has no desire to eat anything, so my fear is that it wouldn't matter how good a food tastes; she wants no part of it. We will take a look at the book, though. Might come in good one day. Thank you!!!