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can you drink alcahol while receiving chemopheropy ...


Sent to Health Experts April 28, 2006 3:53 p.m.

can you drink alchahol whilst receiving chemopheropy for hodjkins lymphoma

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April 28, 2006 3:58 p.m. (5 minutes and 40 seconds later)
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It's not so much as alcohol being bad during Chemo. But Alcohol can interfere with the way some chemotherapy drugs work. Your doctors and/or nurses can give you better idea if the types of drugs you are taking is safe with alcohol. Some drugs have reactions, while other don't.

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