There are a number of nutritional supplements available to us as cancer patients, most are bogus and may help organ health but have little effect on the actual disease.
Before you fall for the snake oil check out the product ingredients on
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69353.cfm this is Sloan Kettering site on herbal supplements and some therapies.
One thing I have found is Turkey Tail mushroom research along with the Chinese root Dhen Shen. The Turkey Tail mushroom contains Polysaccride Peptides (PSP) which have shown to boost T helper cells, and B lymphocytes which are damaged during Chemo and are key in a healthy immune system. For details see:
http://psp-research.com/review1.htm#intro For clinical trial of Turkey Tail or Yun Zhi see:
http://www.worldscinet.com/ajcm/33/3303/S0192415X05002990.ht Those of you which are inclined to pragmatic treatment of this insidious disease take heed, the art of medicine is to embrace all disiplines not to put all of your hope in Allopathic (Western Medicine), but to use as an adjunct other treatments.
For those of you who have had chemo or are going to have chemo please read and apply the following, I do not take the antibiotics and anti viral medicines prescribed after chemo., my GI is in great working order and no infections have followed Chemo. This link is about GVHD a disease which is related to stem cell transplants but the technique can benefit all Chemo patients.... I know I am one.
http://www.clltopics.org/BMT/GVHD.htm RW