Nutrition Plan While On Sutent --- Any Info?

Hi,

My father will be starting sutent very soon. I will be asking the oncologist many questions and some will be related to nutrition--- does anyone have any advice on what to avoid or look for from a nutritional standpoint?

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated

 

Nutrition is so very important and here is a website which I have found very helpful on that subject._________ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=52 Also the following information is important for you to be aware of since your dad with be starting this treatment Watch Thyroid While on Sutent Half of Users Develop Thyroid Problems, Study Finds ?Article date: 2006/11/24 http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Watch_Thy Summary: Patients who take the targeted drug Sutent (sunitinib) should have their thyroid function routinely monitored, according to doctors from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. More than half of people taking the drug developed some kind of thyroid problem during treatment, the researchers report in a new study.

On 2/10/2008 carciNO wrote:

Hi,

My father will be starting sutent very soon. I will be asking the oncologist many questions and some will be related to nutrition--- does anyone have any advice on what to avoid or look for from a nutritional standpoint?

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated

 

Nutrition is so very important and here is a website which I have found very helpful on that subject._________ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=52 Also the following information is important for you to be aware of since your dad with be starting this treatment Watch Thyroid While on Sutent Half of Users Develop Thyroid Problems, Study Finds ?Article date: 2006/11/24 http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Watch_Thy Summary: Patients who take the targeted drug Sutent (sunitinib) should have their thyroid function routinely monitored, according to doctors from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. More than half of people taking the drug developed some kind of thyroid problem during treatment, the researchers report in a new study.

On 2/10/2008 carciNO wrote:

Hi,

My father will be starting sutent very soon. I will be asking the oncologist many questions and some will be related to nutrition--- does anyone have any advice on what to avoid or look for from a nutritional standpoint?

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated

 

I've researched for endless hours about nutrition since my friend was dx with RCC. The number one thing to stay away from is sugar. My understanding is cancer cells multiply with sugar. Here is a site that I found informative www.webmd.com/diet/guide/top-cancer-fighting-foods

Bless you and your loved one.