Dietary questions w. Her2+ er-/pr-

[Hopefull]

I have been reading on the blog....a lot of info out there....and a bit overwhelmed! My mom has always taken viatamins and anti-oxidants, I'm not sure about the fish oils....anyway. There has been information posted about supplements helping reduce HER2.

1...what sort of supplements would be most beneficial?

2....will any of them interfere w/ her current treatment...taxotere/carboplatin/herceptin?

3...Any particular foods she should be avoiding?

Thanks All!!

[nitewind]

Hi Hope, I'll be watching this thread with you, I'd like the same information and hopefully in some plain language that I can understand. It would be great to know of a few things to take and very helpful knowing what to avoid. My oncologist said no to most all supplements but I'll be finishing my herceptin next month and I don't think supplements would do any harm. I hope some of our very helpful sister will jump in on this subject.
Hugs

[penelope]

bump, bump!

[janet/FL]

Thought you might find these posts interesting. If these are the latest posts, it might be time to post what we take again as these are from 2005.

http://her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21877&highlight=supplements

http://her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21874&highlight=supplements

[R.B.]

On fish oil omega threes and sixes these may be of interest.




http://www.her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24410&highlight=greek+diet

http://www.her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30984&highlight=greek+diet

and more generally

http://www.her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26595&highlight=breast+cancer+diet

And as to particular treatments search here by entering your treatment term and DHA, or omega three, or docosahexaenoic (the name of DHA)

A number have been trialled with DHA and do show synergies. I posted a trial looking at the subject generally but at this moment do not recall what it was titled or which thread I filed it under.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

and on google scholar

Finally please discuss any thoughts you have with your onc


RB