On May 7, 2025, the Round Table «Nutrition and Oncology: Standards, Approaches and Individual Solutions» was held (date of publication on the website 08.05.2025) - State Institution «Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine»

On May 7, 2025, the Round Table «Nutrition and Oncology: Standards, Approaches and Individual Solutions» was held

On May 7, 2025, within the framework of the conference «Healthy eating from childhood to longevity: an integrated approach, state and prospects,» a round table «Nutrition and oncology: standards, approaches and individual solutions» was held on the role of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of cancer patients.

The roundtable was held at the National University of Food Technologies under the chairmanship of Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Oleksandr Shevchenko, Rector of the National University of Food Technologies, in the presence of:

Ivan Lisnyi – Head of the Scientific and Clinical Department of the National Cancer Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor;
Mariia Hulich – Head of the Laboratory of Nutrition Hygiene and Safety of Food Products of the State Institution «Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine,» Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor;
Halyna Anokhina – Professor of the Department of Gastroenterology, Dietology and Endoscopy, Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor;
Halyna Simakhina – Head of the Department of Health Products Technology at the National University of Food Technologies, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor;
Serhii Tokarchuk – Vice-Rector (Scientific Work), Associate Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D);
Yuriy Zadnipryanyi – Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Society of Food Products of Ukraine;
Olga Akinshyna – nutritionist at the National Cancer Institute of the Ministry of Health;
Ivanna Velichko – nutritionist and coordinator of the Patient Nutrition Academy;
Raisa Mykhailova – General Director of FAVOR LLC;
Liudmyla Osinnia – General Director of Zhytomyrbioproduct;
and 36 participants, including representatives of food production for special medical purposes.

The roundtable discussed the following issues:

modern science-based view on the issue of “nutrition and oncology”;
practical implementation of nutrition in specialized oncological medical institutions of Ukraine;
food industry products: the requirements of the time in terms of cancer prevention, health food products.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Ivan Lisnyi in his report focused on the modern view of the development and negative impact of nutritional deficiency in cancer patients, prehabilitation of cancer patients, application of the ERAS strategy in oncological surgery. He emphasized the importance of nutritional support for cancer patients, which has a significant contribution at all stages of treatment.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Halyna Anokhina and nutritionist Olga Akinshyna presented their reports on nutrition in the prevention and treatment of cancer patients and nutritional therapy at the stages of treatment of cancer patients.

Professor Halyna Simakhina presented a modern view of the production of food products for health purposes. She focused on the need to develop food products for special medical purposes specifically for nutritional support of cancer patients at all stages of treatment in accordance with new scientific developments in this area.

The roundtable was also attended by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Mariia Hulich, Head of the Laboratory of Nutrition Hygiene and Safety of Food Products of the State Institution «Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.» She focused on the issue of regulatory support of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the organization of nutrition for cancer patients and emphasized that nutrition for cancer patients in medical institutions of any subordination is carried out in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine of October 29, 2013, No. 931 «The Procedure for Organizing the System of Medical Nutrition for Patients in Healthcare Facilities.» It provides for 5 norms of therapeutic nutrition, including for cancer patients, which are calculated solely depending on the patient’s initial normo-, hypo- or hypertrophic state.

Mariia Hulich spoke about the need to revise and supplement the Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine No. 931 on nutrition for cancer patients. In her opinion, when developing the norms of therapeutic nutrition for cancer patients, it is necessary to take into account not only the trophic state of the patient. First of all, it is necessary to take into account such issues as the localization of the tumor, as well as the stages of treatment: preoperative, postoperative, chemotherapy or radiation therapy. According to the speaker, the norm of therapeutic nutrition for a cancer patient must be modified in accordance with the localization of the tumor and the stage of treatment. In each case, it should even be about individualized nutrition of the patient. In the final part of the report, Mariia Hulich noted the need for an integrated approach to solving this issue and close cooperation between oncologists, hygienists, nutritionists and food technologists in the production of food products for special medical purposes and health food. This proposal was positively received and had a great response from the participants of the roundtable on the further development of a regulatory document on medical nutrition for cancer patients.

Download information about the round table in pdf format (in Ukrainian)

(date of publication on the website 08.05.2025)