Nutritional status of breast cancer female patients

Abstract EN

The major aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of Breast cancer Female Patients.

One questionnaire was designed and data were collected from one research sample comprising (60 patients treated with hormonal therapy and 60 patients treated with chemotherapy).

The anthropometric and biochemical measurements were carried in 30 patients before the start of chemotherapy and another 30 patients before the start of hormonal treatment.

The measurements were repeated after one month from the start of chemotherapy and hormonal treatment.

The data indicated that (75%) were eating three meals every day, (66.7%) drunk a little water, and (56%) consumed a lot of sugar daily.

The patients always drink fresh juices, and herbal beverages.

Balady bread is the main source of carbohydrates.

The patients were eating fresh vegetables and fruits.

Most of them were eating fish weekly.

From the results, we can conclude that chemotherapy affects the health status of patients because it decreases muscle mass and weight of patients.

Also, these results show that hormonal treatment may increase weight if it would be used for a long period.

The results show chemotherapy increases the average of liver enzymes and decreases the average of “Urea, Creatinine, WBC, RBC, Hb, and PLT.

However, the hormonal treatment decreases the average of liver enzymes and decreases an average of Urea and Creatinine.