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Chemotherapy has contribution to the appearance of lack of nutrition with assorted causes for example nausea, vomiting, stomatitis or intestinal disorders and reduced of appetite. The items above additionally to affecting the dietary status also affects caused by chemotherapy treatment. Unwanted effects that happened associated with the dose, treatment time, kind of medication and individual response.

Radiotherapy. Radiotherapy can also be adding to the appearance of lack of nutrition on cancer patients. Weight of lack of nutrition which happens is dependent upon the area of radiation, radiation dose and duration.

Some reasons for alterations in dietary status because of radiation:
- towards the mind: to result in nausea, vomiting.
- Radiation towards the mind / neck: cause mucositis, difficulty to ingested, difficulty to spread out mouth.
- Radiation thorax: difficulty to ingested, oesofagitis.
- Radiation abdomen / pelvis: causes diarrhea, gastritis, nausea, vomiting.

Cancer is a disease caused by the growth of body tissue cells that are not normal. Cancer cells will grow rapidly, uncontrollably, and will continue to divide, then infiltrate into surrounding tissues (invasive) and continue to spread through the connective tissue, blood, and the attack vital organs and spinal cord.

Under normal circumstances, cells will divide only if there are replacement cells that have died and broken. Instead cancer cells will divide continues even if the body does not need it, so it will happen accumulation of new cells, called malignant tumors. Stacking the cells are urgent and damage normal tissue, thus disturbing the organs they occupy.

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Cancer is one disease that is deadly and very scary for most people. But did you know that there are some foods such as fruits and vegetables that can be antidote cancer. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), some plant foods provide protective effects against various types of cancer.

A person suffering from cancer should eat healthy foods high in protein and calories for energy needs. This energy is needed by cancer patients during the healing process in order to maintain the immune system. According to experts, there are some foods that may ward off cancer, among which are (taken from various sources):

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Here are some other bad effects on the breast due to caffeine, lump in breast caffeine can cause fibrocystic breast, which contains cells that collect fluid in the cysts that often make a lump or lumps in the breast. The characters in the form of lumps that move freely round the breast.

These lumps are often tender to the touch. These lumps can be either permanent or temporary. The symptoms will get worse before menstruation and early pregnancy. Fibrocystic breast because caffeine intake usually does not increase breast cancer risk.

Pain in the breast, causing lumps addition, caffeine also causes discomfort and pain in the breast. Caffeine intake can aggravate the pain if you already suffer from fibrocystic breast before. This pain can come continuously or only occasionally.

Breasts are solid; research shows that high intake of caffeine that causes breast fibrocystic changes can also cause certain regions in a dense breast. To avoid lumps in the breast occur, should reduce and stop the habit coffee. In addition, high-fiber diet, eating seafood as well as intake of vitamin A, vitamin E and iodine can also prevent the occurrence of breast cysts.