Hi everyone,
I’ve added a new set of practical evidence reviews to Missing Script. The questions are familiar: what should I drink, how do I keep my weight up, and which supportive-care ideas are actually worth discussing?
Start with hydration and nutrition
Hydration during cancer treatment: a closer look at water, electrolyte drinks and alkaline water—including when more fluid can cause problems.
Ensure, Boost or Kate Farms?: a comparison of 13 nutrition formulas, including plant-based choices, with a calorie counter and adult BMI calculator.
I’d also like your input. What would make a nutrition shake easier to drink: a different flavor, less sweetness, a thinner texture or different ingredients? Open the one-minute shake survey. No name, email or diagnosis is requested. This is voluntary product-preference feedback that may inform oncology nutrition products I’m developing.
New evidence reviews
- Cooling hands and feet during taxane chemotherapy — the neuropathy-prevention signal and its limits.
- Prehabilitation before lung cancer surgery — what a short, supervised program may offer.
- Zinc for taste changes — why biological plausibility is not enough.
- Exercise during prostate cancer hormone therapy — strength, fatigue and a safer starting point.
- A handheld fan for breathlessness — a simple symptom-support option, with clear limits.
- Cannabis for cancer pain — what the larger trials found.
- Probiotics during pelvic radiation — why the exact strain and clinical setting matter.
- Pelvic-floor training after prostatectomy — technique, timing and realistic expectations.
- Melatonin after breast cancer — putting the sleep findings in context.
- Oxybutynin for hot flashes — the benefits and anticholinergic trade-offs.
- Exercise with metastatic breast cancer — support for strength and everyday life.
Each review separates symptom relief from cancer treatment, explains the limits of the evidence and ends with questions to bring to your care team.
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Thanks for reading,
Sid
For education and discussion, not individual medical advice. Please review treatment changes, supplements and exercise plans with your own care team.
