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  • Healthy diet may avert nutritional problems in head, neck cancer patients

    Dec 16, 2019 10:45 am by Sharita ForrestResearch
    Anna E. Arthur and Sylvia L. Crowder. Arthur is a professor of food science and human nutrition at the U. of I. and an oncology dietitian with the Carle Cancer Center. Crowder is a research fellow in the Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research graduate educational program in the Cancer Center at Illinois. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    Head and neck cancer patients who ate a healthier diet prior to diagnosis were less likely to develop nutritional problems up to one year post-diagnosis, according to a new study.

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