Abstract
This study aims to evaluate how food and nutrition can improve the quality of life of people with gastric cancer, since these patients are faced with various nutritional problems, among them, low weight, and malnutrition. The study is methodologically constituted as a qualitative approach and bibliographical research. The techniques used were discussion and interpretation from the reading of articles on the subject published in SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library), Pub Med., Service of the National Library of Medicine). exploring the data of the results that discuss the subject in question. The study found that nutritional care leads to an improvement and well-being in the quality of life of patients affected by stomach cancer. Thus, nutritional monitoring can provide a reduction in the adverse effects of treatment and the risk of malnutrition, improving treatment tolerance, quality of life and prognosis.
