Newswise — Tracy Crane, Ph.D., RDN, director of lifestyle medicine, prevention and digital health at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, is a national leader in advancing research on nutrition’s impact on cancer patients before, during and after treatment.
“Nutrition plays a well-known role in cancer prevention and survivorship,” she says, “but there is very little solid guidance on how to support patients during chemotherapy.”
The gap led the National Cancer Institute to fund the Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO) research consortium. Crane chairs ENICTO’s Diet and Malnutrition Working Group, and was corresponding author of a recent study to address conceptual and design gaps in nutrition’s role in cancer care. It appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.