What My Patients Are Asking: Should I Avoid Fish Oil While I’m Getting Chemotherapy?
By Brian Wojciechowski, M.D. on April 27th, 2015 Categories: Treatment & Side EffectsSeveral news stories, including one in Time magazine, are saying that people diagnosed with cancer should avoid fish oil supplements, as well as eating mackerel and herring, while being treated with chemotherapy.
The study these news stories are based on, “Increased Plasma Levels of Chemoresistance-Inducing Fatty Acid 16:4(n-3) After Consumption of Fish and Fish Oil,” was published online on April 2, 2015 by the …
A Hair Loss Checklist: Steps to Take Before Treatment
By Christine Lafferty on December 21st, 2012 Categories: Treatment & Side EffectsAs women we tend to think about how others react to a diagnosis, sometimes putting aside our own emotions because we want to soothe others. We want to make sure they are all o.k.
If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, when you finally sit down and absorb everything, you know you need a plan. After all the medical decisions are made, and if chemotherapy …
Chemotherapy and Exercise
By Laura Wong-Pan on February 1st, 2012 Categories: Treatment & Side EffectsWhen you go through chemotherapy, in addition to the preoccupation of whether or not it will effectively destroy the cancer cells, you may be concerned about how to retain your physical fitness during treatment.
If you are an endorphin junkie like I am, you’ll find that keeping up with an exercise program during chemotherapy, if you are physically able to, is a good way to …
How to Counter the Side Effects of Chemo
By Patricia Prijatel on July 29th, 2010 Categories: Treatment & Side EffectsToward the end of my chemo treatment, my husband and I decided to celebrate my progress (any excuse for a celebration), so we went to eat at Red Lobster. Their cheese biscuits are one of my favorite parts of a meal there. This time, though, the biscuits tasted like lard. No cheese, no yummy bread taste. Just lard.
Such were the wonders of chemo that …
