Cancer
What is cancer?
Cancer is a disease characterized by the uncontrolled growth of a group of abnormal cells, which can destroy adjacent tissues and spread to other areas of the body via the lymph or blood; the growth of malignant tissues.
What occurs first, HIV infection or AIDS?
HIV infection
Which route of administration is through the GI tract, enteral or parenteral?
Enteral
When neoplasm tissues spread to other regions of the body, that process is called what?
Metastasizing
What does AIDS stand for?
Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Since the development of successful drug therapies, which is more prevalent among HIV infected individuals, wasting or obesity/overweight?
Obesity/overweight
Adenocarcinoma cancers effect what part of the body?
The glandular tissue
True or false, there is a cure for HIV and AIDS.
False
What nutrition support is reserved for patients who have inadequate GI function (GI obstructions, prolonged nausea and vomiting, and severe radiation enteritis)?
Parenteral nutrition
True or false, phytochemicals in our food promote carcinogen production in the body.
False, they inhibit carcinogen growth.
What two steps should should soon follow an individual is diagnosed with HIV?
A nutrition assessment and drug therapy
What are 2 types of foods someone on immunosuppressive drugs avoid?
1) Unpasteurized juices and milk products
2) Unwashed raw fruits and vegetables