Improving cancer therapy achieved through taste, odour intervention

Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odour perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to a Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Centre compilation of various existing studies. Their review appears in the March/April 2009 Journal of Supportive Oncology...

Read the whole article on

More from