On Jul 21, 10:51*pm, Goomba > wrote:
> Mark Thorson wrote:
> > First, you'll need a complete list
> > of the forbidden foods. *Curry, tumeric,
> > grapefruit, and yellow onions would certainly
> > be on the list because they interefere with
> > chemotherapy.
>
> Says who? Got a citation for that claim?
> We always told patients to eat whatever they wanted if that is what they
> wanted and their condition allowed. *Many suffer ulcerations of their
> oral cavity because of the way chemotherapy interferes with cell
> replication. *Epithelial cells in the mouth are very sensitive to this
> and it often makes eating painful. So finding foods that nourish, yet
> aren't difficult to eat are important. And yet everyones tolerance varies..

I was on Abraxane 1x week and Carpoplatin 1x every 3 weeks. And for 2
solid months, all I wanted to eat was Red Texas Grapefruits. 1-2 a
day. And steak and lots of carbs. and I told the chemo nurses and the
oncologist about every weird food craving I had and the answer was
always "if that's what you want to eat and you feel ok, that's what
you eat." beef cravings made sense, you need meat to build red blood
cells. the only warning I got was not to eat soy except in very small
quantities because my cancer was estrogen fed and soy is a phyto-
estrogen. Otherwise, my experience with eating during cancer treatment
was "eat what you can".