A Pharmacist's Guide to Integrative Therapy for Breast Cancer

Judith Hyatt

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Judith Hyatt
14 April 2025

Oncology; Coping with illness; Complementary therapies, healing & health; Traditional medicine & herbal remedies

This is a comprehensive guide to integrating supplements into breast cancer therapy written by a pharmacist and breast cancer survivor. The author talks about her journey from diagnosis to treatment plan, to finding integrative therapies that work for her. Every medication and supplement that enters the body has to be metabolized before it can leave the body. Medications and supplements often share common liver metabolism pathways and this is where interactions can occur. The author seeks to guide the reader through the process of selecting supplements that won't interact with their cancer therapy medications since an interaction could result in either cancer medication concentrations that are too high, causing side effects, or concentrations that are too low, resulting in loss of cancer medication effectiveness. There is a chapter that describes how and why these interactions can occur and the potential hazards of adding supplements without knowing how they are metabolized and if they may interfere with metabolism of the reader's cancer medications. Different types of supplements are covered in each chapter. This isn't a comprehensive book of supplements and the author's goal isn't to recommend specific supplements. Some of the research about different supplements is reviewed as well as some potential caveats to their use. References are provided for those who want to delve deeper into studying supplements. At the end of each chapter there is a table that contains the supplements discussed in the chapter along with the metabolic pathways they can affect. Since each patient is on a different medication regimen, they can ask their medical oncologist or pharmacist for the metabolic pathways their medication(s) use and in that way, can look at the charts to find supplements that are safe to use with their cancer medication(s). The goal is to improve quality of life while safely implementing supplements as part of integrative therapy.

By: Judith Hyatt
Imprint: Judith Hyatt
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9798230254690
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 14 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The author, Judith Hyatt, Pharm.D. graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a BS in Pharmacy and a Pharm.D. She also served as an associate professor for the School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine at SUNY Buffalo. She was a researcher at the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory and served as a teacher for students from the School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine. She was also a residency program director. The author is recently retired, lives with her dog Molly, and is giving breast cancer a run for its money while she settles into her retirement career of writing....and traveling.