Nutrition & Weight Loss

Rochester - Wilmot Cancer Center

Good nutrition is an essential part of cancer treatment and survivorship. Eating well can help you keep up your strength and energy, and eating a diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables has been linked with reduced risk of certain cancers. Wilmot Cancer Institute, part of University of Rochester Medicine, offers:

• Nutrition consultations for adult cancer patients and survivors
• Education programs and healthy cooking demonstrations offered at Wilmot’s Pluta Integrative Oncology and Wellness Center, including a free, hands-on Cooking for Wellness class
• Additional resources for learning about nutrition and cancer

Nutrition consultations

Wilmot Cancer Institute has registered dietitians who are board-certified in oncology nutrition and who provide counseling and other advice to adult cancer patients on how to eat well before, during and after treatment. Nutrition consultations are free and do not require a referral from a provider.

Nutrition therapy can help you:

• Manage undesired weight loss, weight gain or changes in appetite.
• Ensure you are meeting your calorie, protein and other nutrient needs.
• Help get you nutritionally ready for surgery to help with recovery afterward.
• Find strategies for dealing with dry mouth and taste changes.
• Manage diarrhea or constipation.
• Recommend diet changes to help manage pain with swallowing.
• Recommend and monitor tube feeding and fluid needs.
• Teach you how to protect immune function and decrease the risk of infection.
• Reduce your risk of recurrent or additional cancers.

Any Wilmot Cancer Institute patient can arrange for a nutrition consultation:

Wilmot Cancer Institute

The James P. Wilmot Cancer Center is the Wilmot Cancer Institute's flagship location. This 84-bed cancer center offers patients and their families comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, and it is home to one of upstate New York’s largest blood and marrow transplant programs.

As the region's leader in cancer research, Wilmot Cancer Center maintains a large network of clinical trials that offer new therapies and options that may not be available anywhere else upstate. In addition, Wilmot's team of scientists have laboratories in the building and across the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Rochester. They investigate many aspects of cancer, and their proximity allows them to collaborate with physicians to provide cutting-edge, precision cancer care.

Patients must have a cancer diagnosis and be under treatment with a Wilmot Cancer Institute physician. 

Request an appointment through MyChart.

Call to schedule an appointment at either Pluta Cancer Center (585-486-0654), Wilmot Cancer Center (585-275-5823) or Highland Hospital (585-341-8013).