{"title":"Clinical guide to herb-drug interactions in oncology.","authors":"K Simon Yeung, Jyothirmai Gubili","doi":"10.2310/7200.2007.008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer patients are increasingly using herbal supplements for relief of symptoms. However, there is a great potential for interactions with concurrent use of herbs and chemotherapy agents. Physicians should be aware of such interactions and encourage patients to discuss supplement use.</p>","PeriodicalId":87409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology","volume":"5 3","pages":"113-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"20","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2310/7200.2007.008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 20
Abstract
Cancer patients are increasingly using herbal supplements for relief of symptoms. However, there is a great potential for interactions with concurrent use of herbs and chemotherapy agents. Physicians should be aware of such interactions and encourage patients to discuss supplement use.