New tipples trolley for cancer patients
Cancer patients at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre are now provided with a glass of wine with lunch and dinner, and from June further, drinks will be provided from a “Tipples Trolley” from 4pm to 5pm.
Research has shown that the rich antioxidants in red wine especially, have helped destroy cancer cells and assisted with the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy.
The Yale School of Public Health found recently that non-Hodgkins lymphoma patients who drank wine moderately had a 76% five year survival rate compared with 68% for non-wine drinkers.
The centre’s head nutritionist Gwenda Roberts said that “a glass of wine can provide an opportunity to forget treatment and illness for a short time”.
The “Tipples Trolley” will be adding to the reviving glass of wine with meals by also offering patients a choice of beer, Guinness, whisky, gin, or sherry in the late afternoon.
