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Breast cancer is a group of abnormal cells in the breast that continues to grow multiply. One treatment for cancer is chemotherapy. Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy have several side effects, which is cachexia, anorexia, weight loss which causes the patients nutritional status to drop dramatically. This research to describe the frequency of chemotherapy, energy intake and nutritional status of breast cancer patients. It was observasional research. The samples was 20 respondents using consecutive sampling technique. Energy intake is obtained through food recall method. The frequency of chemotherapy and cachexia were obtained from medical records and interviews, nutritional status obtained from actual body weight measurements using digital scales and height measurement using microtoa. The results, the average age of respondents 46.8 ± 9.63 years, mean frequency of chemotherapy 6.2 ± 5.74 times. The majority of respondents did not experience cachexia as many as 14 respondents (70%). The average of energy intake was 627.7 ± 236.5 calories. The average of nutritional status was 20.9 ± 3.11 kg / m2. The majority of respondents deficit energy intake but the majority of nutritional status is normal, the average frequency of chemotherapy> 5 times but the majority do not experience cachexia.