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What supplement has shown to be useful in prevention of prostate, lung, colon and total cancers
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Selenium 200 mcg/d (yeast source)
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What supplement has led to pre-cancerous cervical lesions and respiratory papillomas to regress
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Indole-3-carbinol - 350 mg/d
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What has shown to reduce all site cancer incidence in post menopausal women as well as changes in colonic mucosa in pts with hx of colon polyps
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Calcium 1400 mg + Vit D 1100 IU/d
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What supplement has proposed to be preventative for breast cancer in women who drink, people with ulcerative colitis and for cervical cancer in women on OCPs
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Folic acid 1-10 mg/d
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What supplement is useful in preventing cachexia in cancer pts
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Omega 3 fatty acids - 10+ g/d
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What supplement is associated with improvement in bone pain and energy in prostate cancer
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Vit D - 2.5 mcg of active D3 /d
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What supplement, not currently available in the US, is associated with reduced recurrence rate of stomach and colon cancers
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PSK (extract from coreolus versicolor) (both studies on this pts were also on chemotherapy)
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What supplement can stimulate appetite in cancer patients and why is this useful
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Progestins - 800 mg/d this can help with patients who are not eating due to cachexia
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What does Dr Plaza think is the best thing since sliced bread, however Dr Brignall didn't even put on his top shelf interventions for cancer tx
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Melatonin - 20 mg/d
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What are additional potential txs for cancer
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Melatonin
Iscador/Mistletoe - popular in CAM community, however not much evidence Vit C - 10+ g/d - also positive CAM tx, w/o lots of evidence Slows PSA - Modified citrus pectin - 5 g TID Quercetin, limonene, green tea extract, pancreatic enzymes, IP6, shark cartilage, MGN-3, CoQ10 |
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What is Dr B favorite tx for chemo related diarrhea
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Carob powder
In life threatening diarrhea situations use atropine |
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What can be used to tx chemo related diarrhea
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Carob powder 1-2 Tb
Glutamine 6-10 g TID |
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What can be used to prevent or decrease cancer related fatigue
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L-carnitine 2 g BID (expensive at this dose)
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What can be useful for patients on oxaliplatin
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Glutathione IV - can decrease side effects and improve response rate to drug
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Vitamin D has demonstrated two useful actions in cancer tx, what are they
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Improves response rate of prostate cancer to taxane therapies
Increase bone mass in children diagnosed with ALL w/ lower base line BMD |
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A side effect of cisplatin therapy can be neuropathy, what is a supplement that can be given to help prevent this
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Vit E 1200 IU/d
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What can help tx proctitis secondary to radiation
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Vit C & Vit E
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What use was Vit E tx in patients undergoing radiation tx for oral cancer
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Increase salivation
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What supplement can help prevent hand/foot syndrome associated with 5-FU Doxil
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Vit B6 - 250 mg/d
THIS WILL BE ON THE EXAM :) |
