Annual Report 2019
Nutrition Management Office
Haruka Chitose, Mihoko Kazawa, Yuko Nagasu, Ryogo Shimizu, Teruyuki Tanaka, Yuki Ishigami, Miki Kuwana, Kengo Hayashi, Minami Sasaki, Mei Komine, Shuri Higo, Mayuko Ishikawa, Koichi Abe, Satoshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Hirakawa, Kenichi Koshikawa, Takahiro Takahashi, Hideki Ogiwara, Akio Sairenji, Hideki Takano
Introduction
From April 2019 to March 2020, we focused on implementing cancer nutrition guidance. This was done as an effort to increase the amount of nutrition guidance and improve quality. We cooperated with various research projects through nutritional guidance.
The Team and What We Do
Hospitalized patient meals totaled 326,599 during this period and we gave nutrition guidance to 4,330 persons. Regarding discussions with NST, there were an average of 156 new requests per month (Table 1).
We were unable to hold cooking classes for cancer prevention as planned. This is because it was not possible to secure a venue for all the sessions. Consequently, only one was held.
Cooking classes to deal with cancer symptoms have been held 248 times since the program began.
During this time, we were able to open a website called “CHEER!”. This enables people to search for recipes introduced in the cooking classes according to their cancer symptoms. We were able to realize our long-held plan.
Table 1. Number of NST consultations from April 2019 to March 2020
Research activities
We are conducting joint research with various medical departments. “Surveillance of QOL after gastric cancer surgery” in the Department of Gastric Surgery and “rehabilitation nutrition of preoperative chemotherapy” are continuing.
“Research on the effectiveness of rehabilitation and nutritional therapy in perioperative hepatobiliary surgery” and “Development of a preoperative weight loss program for patients with colorectal cancer and its effect on postoperative complications” were also conducted. Before confirming the effect of preoperative and postoperative nutritional guidance, we aim to participate in a true complete treatment plan.
Other studies continue research on early dietary support for cancer cachexia.
Education
In the field of human resources development, we have a strong commitment to education and training and have conducted six university courses for registered dietitians within universities. By strengthening our cooperation with universities, our aim is to enhance research activities in the future through the development of human resources.
Future prospects
We plan to hold a lot of lectures about local information, the influence of cancer therapy and cancer prevention for a lot of people, and we want to disseminate practical knowhow.
We will also develop nutritional guidance methods and nutritional guidance information tools to improve the quality of inpatient and outpatient nutrition management.