title: Cancer chemotherapy: with or without food?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Over the past few years, new chemotherapy agents have emerged, and several are oral. This review attempts to highlight the challenges associated with the interactions between food and chemotherapy, both oral and intravenous.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It provides tentative answers to three questions. Does oral chemotherapy bestow adverse effects derived from its oral administration, as related to food or taste? What instruction should health care providers give patients about food ingestion prior to prescribing oral chemotherapy? How should we counsel patients about eating before intravenous chemotherapy?
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. jatoi.aminah@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Aminah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jatoi
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010353:Patient Education as Topic
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents