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  • Oncology dietitians rarely ask cancer patients about food insecurity, study finds

    Feb 14, 2022 9:00 am by Eric WilsonResearch
    Co-authors of the study, from left, Anna Arthur, then-professor of food science and human nutrition; graduate student and first author Amirah Burton Obanla; and Brenda Koester, associate director of the Family Resiliency Center. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    Despite awareness that many cancer patients are food insecure, most of the registered dietitian nutritionists interviewed by U of I researchers said they did not use a validated tool to screen patients for it.

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