Cancer survivorship and diet: Is there a consensus? A narrative review.

100Background: Diet and nutrition play a key role in the maintenance of health-related quality of life. Studies indicate cancer survivors evince a great interest in learning about nutrition and are willing to initiate life-style changes at the time of diagnosis. However recent survivor data indicates a lack of professional advice on nutrition. Given current guidelines by the American Cancer Society on increasing healthy eating awareness, we present a narrative review of published literature and discuss options for information dissemination. Methods: PubMed search from 2012-2017 was conducted. Studies on outcomes related to diet and nutrition in cancer survivors were included. We excluded general reviews, case reports, pediatric and complementary medicine abstracts. Results: Our initial search yielded 355 abstracts. We focused our review on 33 studies in breast, prostate and colo-rectal cancer care. Diet rich in saturated and trans-fats was detrimental in survivors (≈24%). Low-fat diet improved recurrence ...