Nutrition

A Guide to the SCCA Nutrition Services

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) and partner Nutrition departments provide nutrition services to the SCCA pediatric and adult patients. We offer a variety of professional services in the SCCA Clinic, including individual counseling and weekly classes. Our goal is to provide reliable and accurate food and nutrition advice to help optimize nutritional health and recovery during and after cancer treatment.

The SCCA nutritionists are experienced in a wide variety of food and nutrition topics. The nutritionists work together with the General Oncology, Radiation Oncology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) medical teams to explain the latest scientific connections between food, individual nutrients and health. Our professional staff help interpret scientific findings into easy-to-understand nutrition information. We then work with SCCA patients to design an effective eating plan to meet their unique and individualized needs.

The SCCA nutritionists are Registered Dietitians (RD) by the American Dietetic Association and are Certified Dietitians (CD) by the State of Washington.

More information in this section:

General Nutrition Information
Food Safety
Nutrition Diets and Guidelines
Professional Publications
Patient Publications

• Individualized nutrition assessment and counseling for:
• Disease-specific nutritional issues and treatment complications
• Vitamin, mineral and trace element requirements and deficiencies
• Oral fluid and electrolyte requirements
• Weight management (requires commitment of a minimum of two counseling sessions)
• Preventive nutrition
• Diet analysis and assessment (including computer analysis of patient's dietary intake)
• Assessment and recommendations for specialized routes of nutrition support including tube feeding and intravenous nutrition
• Food safety education
• Weekly nutrition classes with emphasis on food safety during cancer treatment and the nutritional management of cancer treatment side effects