Treatment for cancer

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My father diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer which metastasised to lungs and L5 vertebrae and bones. Now he is using sutent drug.He took 3 courses of sutent. He is having many side effects. He is not able to eat and digest.Everything is vomitting. Will that medicine work or not.we are trying to take shimoga ayurvedic medicine.Can we do that is it safe to take or not. Pls give a clarrification whether we could use ayurvedic medicine or not.

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Dr. Premitha Radiation Oncologist 15 yrs exp Bangalore Consult Now · Accepted Answer

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With sutent if he is having many side effects then you can stop the drug for few days and get blood counts done and try to manage the vomiting. After he recovers from the side effects sutent can be restarted with lesser dose. There is no phase III randomised trial About ayurvedic treatment in cancer.

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