My dietary supplement regime peaked in May 2004 and consisted of:
Omega-3 Fish Oil, 600mg/day (EPA, 360 mg/day and DHA, 240 mg/day)
Selenium, 100 mg.day
Green Tea Extract, 315 mg/day
Lycopene, 30 mg/day
Milk Thistle, 500 mg/day
Sea Kelp, 1280 mg/day
Coriolus VPS mushroom extract, 2500 mg/day
Primrose Oil, 2600 mg/day (GLA, 260 mg/day and Linoleic Acid, 1910 mg/day, plus misc)
Liquid Mint Chlorophyll, 100 mg/day
Centrum multi-vitamin from A to Zinc, 1 tablet/day
It is not clear what difference, if any, supplements actually make in a person's life. It seems that the traditional medical community generally discounts supplements as having any real benefit to a cancer patient, although I have heard from at least one oncologist that green tea and mushroom extract are effective antioxidants and there is good reason to take them.
I refuse to take vitamins that provide 1000% or 6660% or some other huge dosage way beyond the daily recommended dosage - the Centrum tablet is great in that it stops at 100% for the entire antioxidant group, and also includes key minerals like Zinc and Manganese. During radiation treatment (March/April 2004), I had to stop all supplements per the radiation oncologist's direction. You also have to be careful about taking vitamin A when taking Accutane, since Accutane is an acid form of Vitamin A.
Gradually over time, I discontinued all of these products, except for the multivitamin. When the beast reappeared in June 2007, I began to take iron and another multivitamin called Every Man's One Daily, which contains most everything that can be imagined, including the kitchen sink, but not at a mega dosage level.
The daily vitamin was phase out, just because of a failure on my part to remember to take it. I take Keppra faithfully, but I have yet to associate a significant benefit with a vitamin pill. I have not been taking anything in the way of supplements since that later part of 2007, even when the tumor recurred for a second time in March 2009.
