Other individuals may experience a decrease in their appetite. It is important to eat nutritious, well-balanced meals during your radiation treatment. A clinical dietitian is available to advise you on nutrition concerns. If you lose weight, you may be requested to add a dietary supplement to your daily food intake. Some patients may experience a headache, which may require steroid medication.
Patients often ask about taking vitamins during their treatments.
A regular multivitamin is safe for you to take. This is because, theoretically, these vitamins may reverse the radiation or chemotherapeutic effects on the tumor cells. How well your tumor has responded to the radiation treatment may not be determined for several months. Generally, an MRI or CT scan will be done within a few weeks of the completion of your radiation therapy. The scan is useful, however, to determine if there has been tumor growth, and to provide a baseline for future scans.