title: [ENTERAL NUTRITION ON THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CANCER].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify what effect causes enteral nutrition on nutritional status of cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  a search was performed using the keywords "Cancer" AND "Enteral Nutrition" AND "Supplementation" in four document databases: Pubmed, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Web of Science.
  
  
  METHODS
  age of the sample, major than 18 years; submitted to surgery for cancer; that the intervention program was including diet and employment or not of nutritional Supplementation; clinical trials published between January 2004 and December 2014, in scientific journals indexed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  we analyzed 660 articles, of which only 2% has been included. 58% of intervention programs are applied outside Spain; 84% of the interventions was carried out in a hospitable ambient; 58% of the sample is formed by adults older than 54 years; 33% of the interventions were multidisciplinary and its duration ranges between 1 and 4 years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  we found just a few national interventions in cancer participants and there two types of interventions: by exclusive polymeric enteral formula or mixed with immunonutrition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  enteral nutrition shows against the parenteral and its introduction at an early stage, it helps to improve nutritional status of the patient; polymeric formulas next immunonutrition, it helps to reduce the time of hospitalization; the analytical parameters are shown as a measurement pattern when assessing the improvement in nutritional status in cancer. It is recommended to increase the research in this field, especially in children.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad de Alicante, España.. manuel.reig@ua.es.
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Escortell Sánchez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad de Alicante, España.. manuel.reig@ua.es.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reig García-Galbis
mesh_terms: D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods*; D005526:Food, Formulated; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D009752:Nutritional Status