Nutrition Services Program

Food Can Become Your Ally In The Fight Against Cancer

A cancer diagnosis can throw a calm life out of control. Taking control of your dietary and nutritional needs can help. Our staff at the Van Elslander Cancer Center includes a highly trained clinical dietician/nutritionist that can help give you advice regarding your individual dietary and nutritional needs.

What Our Clinical Dietician Works To Do:

• Prevent or correct nutritional deficiencies
• Minimize side effects
• Incorporate healthy nutritional habits into your lifestyle
• Help achieve and maintain optimal body weight
• Educate family members about your special needs
• Enhance your ability to tolerate treatment
• Improve quality of life during treatment

Best of all, if you're a patient of the Van Elslander Cancer Center this service is offered free of charge. For more information, to schedule an appointment or to learn more about our nutrition lecture series and cooking classes, call Christina Shafer at 313-647-3006 or via e-mail.