Fasting prior to chemo days - The Roy Castle Lu...

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

5,743 members3,451 posts

Fasting prior to chemo days

1 Reply

Hi I have just read an article regarding fasting prior and after chemo and its effects on reducing the bad effects on side effects that occur to good cells causing peripheal neuropathy ,has any one got any thoughts on this apart from checking its appropriateness with your oncologist first ?The article was an American suggestion and research is incomplete so far ,but the people that do it say they generally feel better once fast period over not so much fatigue etc . Just thought it might be worth a try if l could fast that long.

Read more about...
1 Reply
LorraineD profile image
LorraineDPartnerRoy Castle

Hello Diane

I will check this out with some of our Nursing and oncology colleagues and see if we can gather any information about this,

best wishes

Lorraine

on behalf of the Information & Support team

You may also like...

Radiotherapy & Chemo together

starting 20 daily sessions of radiotherapy with chemo at the beginning and again at the end, I was...

Palliative chemo - pemotrexid and cisplatin

prospect of chemo and prolonging the inevitable and at the moment leaning towards not having any...

another update on chemo

be cancelled, I saw the oncologist the week after and he is reducing my chemo by 25% for my last...

Some advice on how to approach day to day events whilst going through chemo.

and we find out after her next oncologist appointment whether the chemo is working. I’m hopeful and...

Done with Chemo

as well as can be, I finally had my last dose of chemo yesterday and a 2 hour infusion of magnesium...