I'm a terminal cancer patient, when I first found out I had cancer, I couldn't eat or drink, I couldn't defecate, I lost weight very quickly, I could survive for myself, I just couldn't get out of the house, I was desperately trying to eat, and then I thought of a way to get out of the house, I could eat and have a chance to fight with the cancer, this way I ensured that I had the physical strength, I didn't lose weight, my experience is that I got cancer, I had to have chemo first and then have the surgery, and I had to endure chemo, I had to vomit and eat, that's how I got through it. How to suffer during the period to hold on, vomit in the food, I am so through, after surgery I did not abstain from food, beef and lamb seafood fish I eat, and finally ate me into a big fat, in addition to spicy pickled sugar do not eat, and other eat, I now successfully escape cancer cells, cancer fat is good, proving that the cancer did not devour you, nothing to exercise to strengthen the immune system, I'm a miracle, I will be my future to fight against cancer! I will show my future anti-cancer results to everyone, and hope that we cancer patients can successfully escape from cancer.

This is definitely a good sign! As the old saying goes, man is iron, food is steel, and one meal is not enough to make you hungry!

I was 150 pounds before I got sick, then after four chemo treatments, my appetite got worse and worse, and I was slowly losing weight, although I did add nutrition, milk, fish soup, bone broth, and so on, after all, my appetite was so bad that I still lost some weight, about 10 pounds.

Worse still, I am nasopharyngeal cancer, radiotherapy of the head and neck, radiotherapy in the room at the beginning of no symptoms, after seven or eight times, sore throat, mouth ulcers, the painful days began, radiotherapy procrastination to engage in 52 days, I basically every day, thin rice stewed eggs, soup, milk, but also have to eat cold. Such pain is difficult for the general public to feel, I can cite a few specific examples to let you feel, our ward is really good, once an aunt to see me every day to drink rice, soup, I feel sorry for me, gave me a banana, I do not want to, the aunt said, eat eat it! I thanked the aunt, the banana over to peel the skin, took a bite, just to swallow, the situation appeared, can not swallow, pain ah, make a strong ah, finally swallowed, throat bleeding, oops, my tears fell. Auntie saw me and said, "Don't be so touched, kid! I said, "Auntie, let me go to the toilet and cry for a while!

I went to the bathroom and spit up a mouthful of blood with phlegm, and rushed to the doctor's office to have him treat my inflammation! After using the medicine, the symptoms have been relieved and controlled, but a little attention will be ulcers, and then the end of radiation therapy, go back to rest for half a month and come back to chemotherapy, this time different from the past, walking to hold the wall, all day long hungry grumbling, hard to eat, dry can not swallow, the mouth can not grow, mouth blisters, throat ulcers, I have this state from April lasted until October, the person thinned to 110 pounds, I was once collapsed, I want to die! The heart of all, see others eat so fragrant, I can only drool, I also had a lot of taboos, this does not eat that do not eat.

Now in November, my symptoms have largely disappeared, and I'm eating with a vengeance, feasting and bingeing, but I still can't get it up, and I'm only 115 pounds, due to what must be the toxic effects of the chemo drugs that make it difficult for nutrients to be absorbed.

The experience of not being able to eat at one time has stayed with me for the rest of my life!

This is a very good question! For cancer patients, whether they have undergone radiotherapy or surgery, the change in their weight is an important indicator in assessing the prognosis of treatment.

In the vast majority of cases, patients with tumors will lose weight and lose body mass, especially those with advanced cancer, or within a month of tumor surgery.

If when a cancer patient is treated and then instead experiences weight gain, is that a good thing or a bad thing? The following is for reference only.

In cancer patients, it is common to experience weight loss

The reason why wasting and weight loss is the norm in cancer patients is based on 3 main reasons.

one reason is becauseCancer cells multiply and grow in our body, requiring a lot of nutrients and energy, which creates a situation where they compete with our normal cells. In order to satisfy the nutritional needs of normal cells, our body can only break down the fat and protein stored in the body excessively, which results in the phenomenon of thinness and weight loss.

two becauseCancer cells can invade other normal organs and tissues in our body and release some inflammatory factors that cause the patient to feel pain and/or damage the digestive system, while affecting the appetite is making weight loss.

thirdly becauseThe adverse effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy are serious, such as malignant, vomiting and other digestive symptoms, which seriously affect the patient's appetite, leading to nutritional failure and gradual wasting.

Cancer patients, good signs of weight gain

Although wasting away and weight loss are the norm for cancer patients, there are also good signs of weight gain in some of the following scenarios.

1. Prolonged normal weight gain occurs:There is no better sign than after the cancer has been treated, the proliferation and metastasis of the cancer cells in the body is controlled, the digestive system returns to normal, and the appetite is restored; on the other hand, the cancer cells no longer compete with the normal cells in the body for body nutrients, and the body's fat storage begins to recover.

However, it needs to be clarified here that this good sign of weight gain is characterized by 2 features, one is a normal gain, not a pathological one, and the other is a gain that is maintained over a long period of time.

2. Temporary, restorative weight gain occurs:This situation is especially common in cancer patients after surgery, or after the end of chemotherapy or radiotherapy, due to the lesions are temporarily removed, or the side effects of radiotherapy are weakened, the body's physical condition begins to recover from the trough, and the appetite slowly recovers, and begins to carry out some nourishing dietary therapy, which is very easy to appear weight gain.

Even if this weight gain is temporary and restorative, it is still a good thing because the weight gain will at least benefit the restoration of the functioning of other organs in the body anyway.

However, it should be noted that how long can this temporary and restorative weight gain be maintained? It depends on the cure of the disease. If the disease deteriorates again and the cancer cells metastasize and spread, then the weight gain may take a sharp turn for the worse again.

Cancer patients, bad signs of weight gain

However, some cancer patients experience weight gain that is not only not a good sign, but a very bad bad sign, such as the following 3 scenarios.

1. Weight gain due to body swelling:There are some patients with advanced cancer who suffer from severe low protein in the body, which causes a decrease in colloid osmotic pressure, resulting in swelling of the lower extremities, and it looks as if they have gained weight and put on weight, but in fact it is due to too much water retention in the body.

2. Weight gain due to increased ascites:For advanced cancer patients, when the cancer cells metastasize and spread to the abdominal cavity, it may cause the symptom of ascites, and the most common ones are stomach cancer, liver cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer and so on.

3. Use of hormonal drugs leads to weight gain:Clinically, there are some cancer patients who need to use hormone-containing drugs in the process of chemotherapy. These drugs can alleviate the gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea and vomiting induced by some chemotherapeutic drugs, with the aim of enabling the patients to maintain their appetite and eat normally.

But one of the side effects of taking hormonal drugs is that they lead to obesity, and mostly centripetal obesity, mainly due to sodium and water storage in the body.

To summarize: for cancer patients, as long as the weight gain is not pathological, it is a good sign, or at least beneficial for the recovery of bodily functions.

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Weight gain in cancer patients is definitely a good thing.

I am a cervical cancer survivor and have been battling cancer for 10 years and 2 months now, and I am sharing my experience over the years.

Get sick surgery radiotherapy, side effects, eat what vomit, nausea, nutrition can not keep up, so the body quickly thin, immunity down, colds constantly, shingles also up. My attending physician told me to eat, to eat high protein, replenish qi and blood, otherwise the body more and more thin, low immunity, difficult to fight with cancer. So I ate red dates and peanuts to replenish qi and blood, ate silkworm chrysalis high protein, ate lean meat to fight hunger, 25 times radiotherapy 25 times chemotherapy, I did not hit the birth of white injection. The body slowly gained weight, the amount of food also came up, nutrition to keep up with, immunity naturally improved, and rarely catch a cold, shingles did not start for several years.

It is a good sign for cancer patients to eat but not grow meat and lose weight, indicating that the nutrition has been absorbed by the cancer cells, which should be taken seriously, go for a physical examination to see if there is recurrence or metastasis, and find out early and treat early.

I would like to share my experience of fighting cancer with my cancer friends to improve our quality of life.

For cancer patients, because the cancer cells in the body consume 15 times more sugar substances than normal cells, consuming much energy in the body, the patient will become thin instead of gaining weight; and the cancer cells will release some cytokines, and the patient will feel pain, easy to fatigue, and have a decreased appetite, which will also lead to a loss of weight. Generally speaking, patients' weight loss is common in patients with advanced tumors or within one month after surgery.

What kinds of weight gain in cancer patients can be the cause?

1. Postoperative cancer patients' appetite is not affected and they are actively supplementing nutrition, for example, lung cancer patients, because their digestive tract is not affected, they take a lot of food supplements after surgery for the sake of fast healing of wounds, and they may have weight gain at this time. For patients, weight gain is good, which is favorable to the recovery of various organ functions. While esophageal cancer, stomach cancer patients lose more weight after surgery.

2. Breast cancer, intestinal cancer, endometrial cancer and other patients actually do not need a lot of dietary supplements, even if there is a gastrointestinal reaction during chemotherapy, obvious thinning is not rare, if a large amount of nutrients in a short period of time and do not exercise, the weight is likely to increase faster, this kind of patient's weight increase too fast is not a good thing, excessive obesity chemotherapeutic drug sensitivity will be reduced, affecting the effectiveness of drug therapy. I remember an oncologist said, I am most afraid of very fat breast cancer patients, the therapeutic effect is too poor. And this kind of disease overweight is a high risk factor for recurrence.

3. Some patients during chemotherapy will use hormones to reduce nausea and vomiting and other gastrointestinal reactions, the use of paclitaxel will use hormones to prevent allergies, glucocorticoids will promote appetite, so that eating increased, while stimulating adipocyte differentiation, promote the formation of fat and the abnormal distribution of fat, resulting in centripetal obesity, and in addition to glucocorticoids will also cause water and sodium retention, so that the weight gain.

4. If some advanced patients gain weight in a short period of time, the doctor will have to check their body carefully, and it is likely to be edema caused by severe hypoproteinemia. Due to low protein, the colloid osmotic pressure decreases, and a large amount of water in the blood vessels leaks to the subcutaneous area, which leads to facial edema, edema of the lower limbs or sagging parts, or ascites, etc. At this time, the patient is not gaining weight, but the body is not draining out the excess water through the kidneys. In some patients, due to the progression of the disease, cancerous pleural fluid and cancerous ascites appear, and there is no obvious symptom when the amount is not much, and the weight will increase, so do not be optimistic and think that it is a sign that the disease is getting better.

As you can see, weight gain in cancer patients is not always a good sign, and it is a matter of specificity. For most patients, due to proper nutrition, moderate weight gain is indeed a good thing, which can ensure that the treatment can be carried out smoothly. Patients who are excessively thin or even malignant are not only unable to carry out active anti-tumor treatment, but also lack nutrition for major organs in the body, and the overall prognosis is very poor.

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Cancer patients should try to ensure that their body weight is within a reasonable range. Being overweight can easily lead to complications, such as fatty liver, which are caused by overweight!

After a series of scientific means of cancer treatment, the remaining stage is to compete with the cancer cells for self-healing power, and the human body is a natural balancing system, and the immune ability is able to curb the development of cancer cells to a certain extent!

Obesity, however, is capable of disrupting the body's balance, thus breaking down the body's natural homeostatic system and causing the immune system to be less than capable of healing itself as it should!

That's why cancer patients maintain a reasonable weight to maximize their protection!

There are no more than a few ways that I feel I can keep the weight off:

1, a reasonable diet, eat more vegetables and fruits, reduce the amount of red meat, you can use white meat instead! In ordinary life, eat more vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach and other green vegetables, fruits are rich in nutrients, especially apples, are a good choice!

2, appropriate exercise, exercise can not only enhance the physical fitness, but also improve immunity, more effective in eliminating toxins in the body. Furthermore, it can make you feel better without realizing it, thus achieving the best of both worlds! Patients can choose to walk, yoga, Tai Chi, cycling and other sports!

Cancer patients have to put their best foot forward every moment to fight the disease, not momentarily, but persistently, so choose the right way to keep your weight and enhance your self-healing power in order to achieve the final victory!

So, if there is any weight gain, please be aware of it and make sure you control yourself scientifically!

You will be able to succeed!

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As a surgeon, I am happy to be able to answer this question. Cancer patients often experience weight loss, wasting, and in advanced stages of the disease, cachexia. There are several main reasons why cancer patients experience wasting:

First, the long-term depletion of tumors

Tumor cells are constantly replicating and proliferating, and need a large amount of should nutrients, it will rob nutrition with normal cells, resulting in the body wasting.

Second, chronic blood loss and inability to eat for a long time

It is mainly for patients with gastrointestinal and other GI tract tumors, which can lead to bleeding from broken mucous membranes in the GI tract, chronic blood loss, and anemia.

Cancer of the esophagus, stomach and intestines can sometimes cause obstruction of the digestive tract, with patients vomiting and eating less or being unable to eat. This can also lead to malnutrition

Third, treatment-related

Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are all more of a test and a shock to the patient. There may be a period of time after surgery when the patient cannot eat, and if there are complications such as anastomotic fistula, then the fasting period will be even longer.

Nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite can occur after chemotherapy, and chemotherapy can also lead to bone marrow suppression, resulting in anemia, leukopenia, and more.

Is it good for cancer patients to gain weight

In a sense, weight gain in cancer patients is a good thing, in the sense that the tumor is under control and no longer steals nutrients from normal tissue.

It also indicates that the patient's appetite is better, he can eat and drink, and his digestion and absorption functions have been restored.

The human body is all about prioritizing the satisfaction of the most basic survival, and only when the nutrient needs are met will substances such as immune proteins be synthesized to increase the body's resistance.

Therefore, it is a good thing for cancer patients to gain weight, but the weight should not be gained indefinitely; obesity is also a high risk factor for cancer, and maintaining a normal weight is sufficient.

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This, is not a one-size-fits-all issue.

For the most part, it is good for patients to gain weight. Because, as you said, cancer patients' immunity decreases, their bodies become worse, tumors consume nutrients, side effects such as vomiting after radiation and chemotherapy, poor taste and inability to eat, poor sleep, poor rest, poor mentality and heavy heart, painful treatments, and worrying about things, etc., which will cause cancer patients to lose weight rapidly.

Even, skin and bones can occur.

This is a good time to gain weight if you do so through treatment as well as mindfulness, nutritional supplements, and so on.

However, sometimes there is edema, weight gain due to nutrient fluids, weight gain due to hormone therapy, etc., which is not a good sign.

Therefore, this time needs to be combined with the patient's mental state, which is often referred to as the face. As well as the results of the examination by the attending physician.

The most obvious, is that the lesion tumor is reduced and has not spread, then it is a good thing ah!

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It is common for tumor patients to be thin and rare to be fat. However, after treatment, in the process of recovery, it is generally good to gradually gain weight from excessive thinness to normal. Malignant tumor is one of the three major diseases that cause death in human beings, the overall incidence rate is increasing year by year, and in recent years, malignant tumor has become the first cause of death of our residents. Generally speaking, under the state of tumor, due to the disease or treatment factors, the patient's dietary intake is reduced, energy consumption is increased, and skeletal muscle protein and adipose tissue are consumed in large quantities, which is the cause of weight loss. Wasting is very common in tumor patients, 30%~80% of tumor patients will have different degrees of weight loss, and many patients are initially diagnosed because of weight loss before they develop cancer. Being thin means malnutrition and may also mean progression of the disease. Excessive thinness is called cachexia and has a poor prognosis.

So, is it bad for tumor patients to be thin and good for them to be fat? Of course not, moderation is enough. Being overweight may not only induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, but also may lead to cancer recurrence, for example, breast cancer, endometrial cancer and other postoperative weight control is necessary, and being overweight is a high risk factor for recurrence. So, how much weight is considered good? The weight of middle-aged and old-aged men (kg)=height (cm)-105, and women (kg)=height (cm)-100, and the difference between the actual weight and the average weight is within 10% is considered normal, more than 10% is considered overweight, and more than 20% is considered obese.

I'm Dr. Little Shadow, an imaging physician. Weight gain in cancer patients after eating normally is a good thing, but except for treatment-induced weight gain. Normal weight gain indicates that the organism is slowly recovering, but proper weight control and maintenance is best.

Reasons for weight loss in cancer patients

Unexplained weight loss is a sign of cancer because cancer itself is a wasting disease that constantly uses the body's nutrients to reproduce and multiply itself and grow. Many people seek medical attention for unexplained weight loss, and cancer is discovered. However, not all patients who have cancer will lose weight.

Cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, which tends to cause loss of appetite, feeling of fullness, and reduced eating, is also a cause of weight loss.

A cancer patient has to undergo treatment, including surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, a process that harms the human body to varying degrees, decreasing appetite and causing significant weight loss during treatment. In advanced cancer patients, the weight loss will be more obvious.

Partial weight gain is good in cancer patients during treatment

It is a good thing that after certain treatments for cancer, the tumor is removed or under control, and the nutrients that people eat can be converted into their own proteins and fats, which is manifested in weight gain. After surgery, after a certain period of recuperation, the weight of many friends can be restored to the state before the disease, or even better, outsiders can not see that they have been seriously ill. To adhere to a balanced nutrition, meat and vegetables, regular work and rest, appropriate exercise, and develop good habits, while not unlimited to allow weight gain, obesity will also bring a lot of problems.

There is also a pathological state of weight gain, such as cancer that is not controlled during treatment, multiple metastases, cardiac and renal failure, and water and sodium storage, leading to weight gain, which is often indicative of progressive deterioration.

So, when a cancer patient experiences weight gain, it depends on the situation. If they are eating normally and have weight gain, this is a good thing, a sign that the body is slowly recovering.

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