Dietary advice

Emily McCarthy is a Macmillan Specialist Oncology Dietitian based at the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre to provide advice and support to empower patients to eat well, manage symptoms and help to improve and maintain both nutritional status and quality of life at each stage of their cancer journey. The Macmillan dietitian can see patients attending for treatment on the clinical unit or in a clinic appointment.

If you would like more information, or a referral to see the dietitian please speak to the nurse looking after you.

To find out more about Nutrition and Cancer click on the link to open the Harrogate and District NHS Trust’s ’Nutrition and Dietetics’ page . From there, click on the ‘cancer services’ dropdown menu to access information about the relevant nutrition and dietetics services offered within the Harrogate and District NHS Trust.

More general information about diet can be found on the Macmillan website:

• Common questions about diet and cancer
• What is a healthy, balanced diet?
• Stay healthy – Eat a Balanced Diet booklet 
• Building-up diet
• Healthy Eating and Cancer
• Eating Problems