Annual Report 2024

Nutrition Management Office

Masahiro Sunaga, Takao Saitou, Nobuaki Shimizu, Yuri Tsurumi, Ranna Cho, Miki Kuwana, Rika Oda, Miu Saitou, Ayato Kikuchi, Miki Muraoka, Fuka Iketo, Ayane Kato, Mariko Suma, Satoshi Watanabe, Kenichi Koshikawa, Takahiro Takahashi, Akio Sairenzi, Tatsuya Hirakawa

Introduction

 From April 2024 to March 2025, we focused on implementing cancer nutrition guidance. This was done as an effort to increase the amount of nutrition guidance and improve quality. We have established and implemented a system for nutritional guidance by a registered dietitian who has expertise with outpatient chemotherapy patients.

The Team and What We Do

 Hospitalized patient meals totaled 324,816 during this period, and we provided nutrition guidance to 7,293 individuals. Regarding discussions with the Nutrition Support Team (NST), there were an average of 110 new requests per month (Table 1).

Table 1. Number of NST consultations from April 2024 to March 2025

 Our long-running cooking classes, which had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resumed in March 2024 and were held three times during fiscal year 2024. In 2019, the recipe search site "CHEER!" opened. We made a leap forward by creating four new recipe videos and posting them on our site. It aims to help cancer patients and their families manage the symptoms of cancer that affect their diet.

Research Activities and Clinical Trials

 During this time, we participated in the NEXTAC-III trial, PreSte-HN trial, POMERANIAN study, and PGSAS study, providing nutritional intervention and accumulating cases.

Education

 We are entrusted with the clinical training by 4 universities.

 In human resource development, we have strengthened support so that we can obtain professional qualifications certified by academic societies. This resulted in two persons becoming JSMCN Certified Metabolic and Clinical Registered Dietitians during the period, and one becoming a JSMCN Certified Specialist of Registered Dietitian for Cancers.

Future Prospects

 We plan to hold lectures not only for the local community but also for many people on the impact of cancer treatment and cancer prevention, and we would like to disseminate practical know-how.

 In addition, we will continue to develop nutrition guidance methods and nutrition guidance information tools to improve the quality of nutrition management for inpatients and outpatients.