Services & Fees
With guidance from MD Anderson's Clinical Nutrition department and our multi-disciplinary steering committee, we provide services to examine both the direct and indirect links between diet and cancer in clinical, community, and survivorship populations.
The Bionutrition Research Core offers a range of clinical and community-based nutrition research services. We encourage investigators to contact the BRC early in the study design process.
Service Request Form
Complete this form for initial service requests and return to
brc@mdanderson.org.
Services
Dietary Assessment
- Consultation regarding best practices for dietary data collection, including food diaries, dietary recalls, and food frequency questionnaires using validated, web-based methods.
- Computerized analysis of dietary intake using the Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR) software.
- Research team training for dietary assessment data collection.
- Advanced statistical analysis of collected dietary data.
Nutrient-controlled feeding studies
- Assistance with screening potential subjects for dietary investigation.
- Development and implementation of study-specific research diets. Includes participant interviews, caloric needs assessment, menu planning per protocol and recipe development with ProNutra software, and compliance monitoring.
- Assistance with nutrition-related protocol development and implementation.
Nutrition education
- Instructions for dietary regimens and nutrition education.
- Research related clinical and community-focused nutrition counseling and education.
- Cooking demonstrations.
Fees
Quotes are provided after the submission of a service request form and a consultation. For information about fees, contact program manager Christine Ranieri at brc@mdanderson.org.