The Antioxidant Vitamin Nutritional Therapy and the Chemotherapy Treatment in Oncology

Abstract

Nutritional therapy with antioxidants concomitant to the antiblastic drugs administration show many benefits for the treatment of oncologic patients. The administration of antioxidant vitamins like A, E and C allied to antineoplastic drugs result in low adverse effects and allows the continuity of cancer treatment, since the toxicity caused by drugs is a limiting factor this therapy. Thus, the nutritional therapy based on antioxidants utilization can to amplify the oncologic therapy and to permit better results on cancer control. This article is a literature review, where some aspects of drug action mecanisms and the formation of free radicals deriving from these mecanisms will be analysed.