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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Oral Therapies and Food: To Eat or Not to Eat? - Cancer Network



"As the treatment of cancer shifts increasingly more toward oral therapies, patients are now partly responsible for when and how they take their medication. Despite the potential for increased absorption if taken with food, most oncology drug labels warn patients to take the drug while fasting.
Last fall, Dr. Mark J Ratain brought up the issue of increased utilization of oral cancer treatment in the context of patient adherence and optimal utilization in the Journal of Clinical Oncology article, "Flushing oral oncology drugs down the toilet."[1]......

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