none of your business wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 4:30 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Why don't you ask him about these issues. Ask him
if grapefruit affects drug clearance. If he doesn't
know, or if he doesn't know whether it affects it
positively or negatively, he's incompetent.

Most of the information about food-drug interactions
was published in the last 10 years. There's lots
of doctors and nurses out there who don't keep up
with their field. Professional incompetence in
medicine much more common than most people know.

> 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.

I don't ask you to trust me. If there's any aspect of
this issue you want more information about, I can cite
relevant literature in peer-reviewed medical journals.
You can have a high level of confidence in them.

> 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.

If he knew about it. If he keeps up with the journals.
A lot of them don't.