Xperience nutritional issues than older individuals, which includes eating significantly less regularly (30.four vs. 21.two ), getting far more thirsty (30.9 vs. 21.9 ) anddrinking fluids far more typically (48.3 vs. 42.four ). Younger individuals have been also extra probably than older sufferers to report increased sensitivity to metallic, sweet, and sour, and also a decreased sensitivity to sweet (10.2 vs. four.0 ; P D 0.02). Younger sufferers were extra probably than older patients to report sensitivities to smells; specifically they have been extra probably to report sensitivity towards the smells of fish, meat, poultry, cleaning option, hand sanitizer, perfume, plastics, and food cooking. Older individuals have been far more probably to 
report a preference for meat (50.three vs. 40.three ; P D 0.02), whereas younger patients have been extra probably to prefer Asian (24.2 vs. 15.two ; P D 0.02), Mexican (21.three vs. 5.three ; P 0.01), spicy (20.6 vs. 11.9 ; P D 0.01), and Indian (9.six vs. two.7 ; P D 0.01). In terms of food aversions, younger individuals had been additional probably to avoid meat (21.two vs. 13.three ; P D 0.02) and poultry (9.8 vs. three.three ; P D 0.05).DISCUSSION This study offers detailed information on the ways in which treatment alters the diets of a diverse group of cancer patients. In exploring dietary alterations amongst cancer sufferers at present undergoing outpatient remedy, we located that decreased appetite was more common than increased appetite. Sixty-seven percent of individuals reported at leastTABLE 7 Meals preferences by gender, age, and cancer variety Gender MedChemExpress Dimethylenastron Females (n D 717) 0.97 PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21396500 53.6 (111) 54.1 (112) 47.3 (98) 47.8 (99) 35.8 (74) 38.2 (79) 35.3 (73) 31.9 (66) 28.5 (59) 20.three (42) 29.five (61) 30.4 (63) 19.eight (41) 20.eight (43) 21.7 (45) 17.4 (36) 15.0 (31) eight.two (17) 8.7 (18) ten.1 (21) 58.1 (90) 58.1 (90) 56.8 (88) 50.three (78) 43.9 (68) 41.9 (65) 42.six (66) 36.1 (56) 29.7 (46) 23.9 (37) 25.2 (39) 21.9 (34) 17.four (27) 23.9 (37) 20.0 (31) 16.1 (25) 12.9 (20) 11.6 (18) 10.3 (16) 10.three (16) 62.1 (648) 62.3 (94) 0.98 75 and P 184 years older worth (n D 1043) (n D 151) P worth Breast (n D 207) GI (n D 155) Lung (n D 130) Age Cancer typea Other solids (n D 290) Hematologic (n D 238)Males (n D 450)Fruits and vegetables Soup Poultry Pasta Fish Meat Dairy Sweet High fiber foods Crunchy foods Asian Salty foods Vegetarian Spicy Mexican Chewy foods Citricacidic foods Bland foods Greasyfried foods Indian Soy 56.two (403) 0.82 54.9 (573) 62.9 (95) 0.07 53.7 (385) 0.44 53.4 (557) 60.3 (91) 0.11 50.1 (359) 0.64 48.six (507) 56.3 (85) 0.08 46.three (332) 0.15 47.5 (495) 47.0 (71) 0.92 36.8 (264) 0.01 40.three (420) 50.three (76) 0.02 37.7 (270) 0.18 39.0 (407) 42.4 (64) 0.43 38.two (274) 0.32 36.three (379) 41.1 (62) 0.26 31.two (224) 0.84 31.1 (324) 31.eight (48) 0.85 28.0 (201) 0.05 25.6 (267) 27.8 (42) 0.56 21.two (152) 0.07 24.2 (252) 15.two (23) 0.02 24.6 (176) 0.15 23.7 (247) 16.6 (25) 0.05 26.1 (187) 0.01 22.2 (232) 17.9 (27) 0.22 17.two (123) 0.01 20.6 (215) 11.9 (18) 0.01 19.3 (138) 0.97 21.3 (222) 5.three (8) .0.01 19.eight (142) 0.50 19.1 (199) 17.2 (26) 0.59 16.2 (116) 0.32 16.7 (174) 21.two (32) 0.17 14.2 (102) 0.06 12.9 (135) 11.3 (17) 0.56 9.1 (65) 0.01 12.five (130) 9.3 (14) 0.26 9.3 (67) 0.43 9.six (one hundred) 2.7 (four) 0.01 8.2 (59) 0.78 eight.two (85) six.0 (9) 0.62.four (281) 62.three (447)62.3 (129) 67.1 (104) 53.9 (70) 61.0 (177) 65.six (156) 55.4 (72) 54.six (71) 47.7 (62) 50.0 (65) 40.8 (53) 37.7 (49) 35.four (46) 27.7 (36) 17.7 (23) 21.5 (28) 20.eight (27) 16.2 (21) 20.0 (26) 16.9 (22) 12.three (16) 16.two (21) ten.0.