“…Administration of parenteral nutrition (energy) to children with cancer during the initial phase of treatment can maintain or improve their nutritional status, immunity and treatment tolerance. Intensive nutritional counselling was unable to achieve this van Eys et al, 1979van Eys et al, , 1980Filler et al, 1977Filler et al, , 1979Ghavimi et al, 1982;Hays et al, 1983;Rickard et al, 1979Rickard et al, , 1980Rickard et al, , 1983bRickard et al, , 1985Szeluga et al, 1987). Nutritional counselling, with the aim of increasing oral energy intake, was only successful in maintaining an adequate nutritional status after the initial phase of treatment and during maintenance therapy (Rickard et al, 1980(Rickard et al, , 1985.…”