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supplements? Absolutely NO supplements?
I have always been a strong believer in preventative medicine and have taken coQ10, fish oil, protein shakes, glucosamin/chondroitin etc. During chemo I stopped all except for a multivitamin. Now I am on my last 3 months of herceptin and take femara. I can have calcium+D, multi-vitamin, Cosamin DS. At my last visit to my Onc. I asked about supplements. They absolutely do not want breast cancer patients to take supplements! The justification is that there has not been enough research to prove the good of supplements and there isn't enough to prove they don't feed cancer in some way. What a bummer! Part of me believes that there is no money in preventative health care so the medical world wants to ignore it. I am reading many of your posts and see that you are taking supplements. Is this with Dr.s approval? I am very curious about what if anything your Onc. has suggested. We are about 95% vegetarian so I hate giving up the protein shakes, but if there is a valid reason I will not go against my Onc. advice.
I'd really like to hear from all of you who are interested in the dietary piece of recovery.
Alyce
2008 - lumpectomy
Her2 positive stage 1
Chemo, radiation
one year Heceptin
Femara (no side effects! I swim 5 times a week)
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