Nutrition education intervention for women with breast cancer: effect on nutritional factors and oxidative stress.

Objectives: To assess the effect of a nutrition education intervention on nutritional factors and oxidative stress during treatment of breast cancer.

Design: Nonrandomized clinical trial conducted in 2010-2011, including an evaluation at baseline and after 12 months.

Participants: Women from Brazil who had breast cancer, divided into an intervention group (IG) (n = 18) and comparison group (n = 75).

[Factors associated with changes in energy intake of women after treatment for breast cancer].

Purpose: To investigate changes in the dietary consumption as well as the influence of the general characteristics, of the sociodemographic, clinical and nutritional factors, and of the antineoplastic therapy on the changes in the energy intake of women from southern Brazil, before and after adjuvant therapy for breast cancer.

Methods: A non-randomized clinical study was conducted on 53 patients at a hospital of the public health network. Dietary information was collected with a food frequency questionnaire.