European Commission's HPP Annual Meeting

Integrated Nutrition Cancer Care: A joint approach to policy and practice

Equitable access to nutrition and nutritional care as an integral part of comprehensive care for all cancer patients with a focus on ageing patients, is a key condition to reduce complications and comorbidity, maintaining optimal health and quality of life.

Nutrition should therefore become an integral part of European and national guidelines and policies for high-quality cancer care. However, nutrition being organized horizontally within healthcare, this requires a wide range of stakeholders to be involved and managed.

The aim of this webinar is to co-create a joint, translational approach to nutritional care policies. By having science and policy go hand in hand we can implement cost-effective measures that benefit the lives of European patients with cancer.

Being the pitch-winner in June ’21, the EU Health Policy Platform thematic network “Integrated Nutrition Cancer Care” led by the European Nutrition Health Alliance and various stakeholders, aims to make the case for  why integrating Nutrition in National Cancer Care Plans and European Policies is crucial for patients.

Background

• With over 2.7 million new cancer cases diagnosed each year in Europe, how can we ensure access to optimal nutritional care for all, rather than the lucky few?
• Malnutrition remains the single most common complication in cancer, yet many gaps and barriers remain that cause patients to suffer avoidable complications and poorer than anticipated outcomes.
• ESPEN has already produced practical clinical guidelines on how to deliver nutritional care, but what more is needed to make it happen in practice?

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Integrated Nutrition Cancer Care: A joint approach to policy and practice

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