Journal
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11030653
Keywords
cancer survivors; chronic pain; pain management; nutrition; diet
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- Ministry of National Education of the Turkish State
- Research Foundation Flanders(FWO), Belgium
- Berekuyl Academy, Hierden, The Netherlands
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Evidence suggests a link between chronic pain and nutrition, and chronic pain in cancer survivors is gaining attention in healthcare. This review emphasizes the importance of incorporating nutrition into chronic pain management for cancer survivors. Dietary interventions may alter pain pathways and mechanisms, providing a potential modality for chronic pain management in this population.
Evidence for the relationship between chronic pain and nutrition is mounting, and chronic pain following cancer is gaining recognition as a significant area for improving health care in the cancer survivorship population. This review explains why nutrition should be considered to be an important component in chronic pain management in cancer survivors by exploring relevant evidence from the literature and how to translate this knowledge into clinical practice. This review was built on relevant evidence from both human and pre-clinical studies identified in PubMed, Web of Science and Embase databases. Given the relationship between chronic pain, inflammation, and metabolism found in the literature, it is advised to look for a strategic dietary intervention in cancer survivors. Dietary interventions may result in weight loss, a healthy body weight, good diet quality, systemic inflammation, and immune system regulations, and a healthy gut microbiota environment, all of which may alter the pain-related pathways and mechanisms. In addition to being a cancer recurrence or prevention strategy, nutrition may become a chronic pain management modality for cancer survivors. Although additional research is needed before implementing nutrition as an evidence-based management modality for chronic pain in cancer survivors, it is already critical to counsel and inform this patient population about the importance of a healthy diet based on the data available so far.
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