Gastric neoplasia is one of the most common diseases in Brazil and
worldwide, mostly on the northern side of Brazil. Both treatment and illness are linked
to the symptoms of the patients' nutritional conditions. The purpose of this study is to
conduct a literature review of the effect of the use of dietary supplements and
immunomodulators on the nutritional status of patients suffering from gastric
neoplasia. All the research goes to BVS descriptors: “Gastric Neoplasia”, “Nutritional
Supplements” and “Nutritional Status” from the Health Science Descriptors (DecS),
and in PubMed, ScienceDirect, and CAPES journals the descriptors used were
“Gastric cancer”, “Nutritional Status”, “Oral nutritional Supplements” and
“Immunonutrition” from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH); so, after widespread
demand it was found 27 articles that corresponds the inclusions or exclusion criteria.
Most of the authors explained the benefits of nutritional supplementation and
immunomodulators to prevent weight loss, frailty, and cachexia, as well as, lower
incidence of postoperative infections, and better immune profile, besides the
effectiveness of omega 3 use. On the other hand, there have not been found works
which show differences between the use or non-use of this. With this, it is possible to
conclude that all nutritional strategies are effective in handling nutritional state,
prognosis and quality of life for these people. In these terms, there are further studies
to be done to show how immunonutrition has been in nonsurgical treatment
performance.
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