Upon completion of the module, the participant will:

• Learn nutrients that can prevent radiation induced diarrhea
• Review cases showing that proteolytic enzymes can reduce adverse effects caused by radiation and chemotherapy
• Learn treatments for side effects of chemotherapy such as nausea, food aversions, sore mouth and throat, mouth ulcers, dry mouth, hair loss, decrease production of blood forming cells
• Learn methods to help prevent cardiac toxicity caused by chemotherapeutic agents
• Learn nutrients through case histories that can protect against busulfan toxicity
• Understand how to prevent complications of chemotherapy such as leaky gut syndrome, yeast overgrowth, malabsorption, loss of digestive enzymes, and low stomach acid
• Learn nutrients that help prevent kidney damage caused by chemotherapeutic agents
• Understand nutrients that can be used in conjunction with radiation and chemotherapeutic agents that do not decrease the efficacy of the radiation or chemotherapy
• Learn nutrients that help protect the nervous system
• Recognize neurological complications of chemotherapeutic agents
• Comprehend lymphedema treatments
• Be familiar with nutrients that protect against radiation necrosis
• Know nutrients that can increase the effectiveness of radiation
• Learn integrative therapies for many forms of cancer
• Understand the role of antioxidant use with chemotherapy and radiation
• Learn to assess cancer-related infections
• Learn to recognize paraneoplastic syndromes
• Learn treatment of hematological complications in cancer