Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy, according to Virginia Tech, Wake Forest study

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 17:36 in Health & Medicine

BLACKSBURG, Va., March 30, 2009 -- Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odor perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to a Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center compilation of various existing studies.

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