Providing your body with the nutrients it needs is important for everyone. Combined with exercise and maintaining a healthy weight, eating well is a great way to help keep your body strong and healthy. If you are currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer or have had treatment for breast cancer in the past, eating well is especially important for you. In this section, you can read about nutritional recommendations for breast cancer patients, how to eat healthily, and what and how to eat during and after treatment.

A healthy diet plays a particularly important role in the treatment of cancer in general and breast cancer in particular. A proper diet can help the body recover quickly, limit the side effects of cancer treatment and reduce the symptoms of the disease.

Cancer as well as cancer treatments (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery...) affect the supply and metabolism of nutrients in the patient's body. Accordingly, nutrition plays an important role in prolonging life and improving the quality of life for breast cancer patients. Up to 50-80% of cancer patients lost weight and 20% of cancer patients died due to severe malnutrition. Therefore, breast cancer patients after chemotherapy treatment need to maintain a reasonable and active diet to compensate for weight loss, ensure health and receive better treatment interventions.