On Jul 22, 4:30*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
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> Obviously not. *Note that neither of the posters
> who advocated eating anything you want has responded
> to the issue of food-provoked modulation of the
> drug clearance mechanisms. *I happen to be rather
> familiar with these mechanisms, and I know I'm right.
> These people have propagated very bad advice that
> could send people to an early death. *Don't expect
> me to be quiet when I see fools giving such bad
> advice. *Food-drug interactions are not something
> to be dismissed lightly.

I'm going to listen to my oncologist's advice about what to eat during
chemotherapy before I'm going to listen to YOU.
If my doctor, who is writing the orders for MY chemotherapy, knows
what he's giving me and knows what I'm eating, says it was ok for ME
to eat what I was able to tolerate, with no ill effect, that's what
I'm going to do. Likewise, if he said to me "you need to avoid onions,
grapefruits and x, y and z while you're having these treatments", I
would have avoided those foods. Anyone who doesn't follow doctor's
orders during life-saving treatments is a fool. But anyone who puts
more stock in advice from a complete stranger on the internet than
from what their doctor tells them is a bigger fool. Who are you? What
makes you qualified to make these statements? Because you say so? At
least I know my oncologist's credentials.

You may be right, SOME foods probably interact with some of the chemo
drugs. But I am certain, if there was a known problem with something I
specifically told my doctor I was eating, he would have told me to
stop eating it.