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Nutritional Therapy in Children with Cancer¹

Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas 77030

The special biology and behavior of the child make nutrition an even more important adjunct to cancer therapy than is true for the adult. The time has come to add nutritional therapy routinely to our other modes of therapy: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy. But it should be done in the same way other modalities are added, i.e., with continued prospective and retrospective review of the data to optimize the approach to the child.

¹ Presented at the Conference on Nutrition and Cancer Therapy, November 29 to December 1, 1976, Key Biscayne, Fla.