title: Dietary habits of lung cancer patients from the Lower Silesia region of Poland.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assessment of lung cancer patients' dietary habits before treatment enable medical staff to provide more individual, precise and complex care to patients, taking into consideration their nutritional status. The aim of this study was, therefore, to evaluate dietary habits related to lung cancer risk of lung cancer patients in comparison with controls from the Lower Silesia region of Poland.
  
  
  METHODS
  Assessments of dietary habits, based on a validated questionnaire related to lung cancer risk were performed on 92 lung cancer patients and compared with the results obtained in 157 controls. Dietary patterns were evaluated concerning on eating frequency of high- and low- glycemic index products, vegetables and fruits, vegetable and fruit juices, green tea, liquid dairy products, meat and fried products over the previous year. Alcohol consumption was assessed on a dichotomous scale (yes or no).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Majority of patients had inappropriate dietary habits, such as low consumption of low GI cereal products, vegetables, fruit and green tea, and a high consumption frequency of fried products.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reported dietary mistakes indicate the need for dietary education among people at lung cancer risk and with newly diagnosed disease, to enhance their nutritional status.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Dietetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zabłocka-Słowińska
authors.affiliation: Department and Clinic of Pulmonology and Lung Cancers, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Porębska
authors.affiliation: Department and Clinic of Pulmonology and Lung Cancers, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gołecki
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Dietetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prescha
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Dietetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pieczyńska
authors.affiliation: Department and Clinic of Pulmonology and Lung Cancers, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kosacka
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Dietetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Rafał
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ilow
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Dietetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Halina
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Grajeta
authors.affiliation: Department and Clinic of Pulmonology and Lung Cancers, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jankowska
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Nutrition, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Jadwiga
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Biernat
keywords: dietary habits; fruits; lung cancer; vegetable