Dealing with loss: food and eating in women with ovarian cancer on parenteral nutrition.
Anne Marie SowerbuttsS LalJana SremanakovaA R ClampG C JaysonL HardyE SuttonA-M RafteryA TeubnerSorrel T BurdenPublished in: Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association (2020)
Home parenteral nutrition meets the nutritional requirements of patients with malignant bowel obstruction but cannot replace the non-nutritive functions of food. Healthcare professionals can offer a patient-centred approach by acknowledging the difficulties that patients may face and, wherever possible, encourage them to focus on the positive benefits of interacting with people rather than the loss of eating on social occasions.