Cancer Care Resources

Patients with cancer often become malnourished and may require enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support. ASPEN provides resources such as guidelines, clinical recommendations, educational videos, and fact sheets to help clinicians, patients and caregivers manage nutrition in this population. This resource center is organized first by general cancer care nutrition resources and then by specific clinical topic area, presented alphabetically. 

General Cancer Care Nutrition Resources

• NEW! Use of Supplemental Parenteral Nutrition for Surgical Oncology Patients 2022
  Webinar Recording and Fact Sheet
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• Malnutrition in Adult Patients with Cancer
  Fact Sheet: Why Nutrition is Important: Adult Patient with Cancer 2020
• Consumer Resources for Nutrition in Patients with Cancer 
  Fact Sheet: Caring for Your Nutrition: Get the Facts 2021
  

Cancer Care Resources By Specific Clinical Topic

Head and Neck Cancer

• Video Series: Enteral Nutrition and Head and Neck Cancer (Development support by Nutricia North America) 2022
  • Part 1: Overview of Head and Neck Cancer
  • Part 2: Enteral Nutrition for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
  • Part 3: Blenderized Tube Feeding for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
  • Fact Sheet: Blenderized Tube Feeding for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
  • Fact Sheet: A Consumer Guide for Cancer Patients: Tube Feeding and Head and Neck Cancer
• Guideline Under Development: ASPEN Nutrition Guidelines for Adult Head and Neck Cancer ( Protocol)