At Roswell Park Cancer Institute, all of our clinical dietitians are credentialed as Registered Dietitians (RD), accredited by the American Dietetic Association and are a part of your interdisciplinary medical team.

Your RD can assist you in the following areas:

• assess your nutritional status and help you meet your nutrition needs

• help you manage side effects of your treatments that impact your ability to eat

• educate you on the diet therapy prescribed by your doctor

• provide counseling on healthy diet and cancer prevention strategies

• provide tube feeding or IV nutrition recommendations

• direct you to reliable resources of credible nutrition information