Frontiers in Nutrition
Nutritional assessment and dietary intervention among survivors of childhood cancer: current landscape and a look to the future
Publication
29 Jan 2024
Over 85% of childhood cancer patients become long-term survivors. Still, cancer and its therapies are associated with a myriad of long-term complications such that childhood cancer survivors (CCS) endure excess disease burden, morbidity, and mortality throughout their lifetimes. Existing literature suggests that CCS maintain poor dietary intake and nutritional status. Thus, as childhood cancer cur...