
Irinotecan
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Sep 27, 2026
Everyone's Taking Berberine — Here's What It Does to Your Cancer Drugs (Part 2)
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18:28Jay ChaplinHOST
Yes, there are real case reports of toxicity, and similar drugs like everolimus are often used in cancer treatment.
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18:35Jay ChaplinHOST
Other drugs with similar interactions are doxorubicin, the whole Taxol family, the Tecan family, Irinotecan, Topotecan, and some of the tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
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18:46Jay ChaplinHOST
And also, the one that nobody really checks, berberine can prolong what we call the QT interval, or the space in between heartbeats, which is a heart rhythm risk.
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18:56Jay ChaplinHOST
If you stack berberine on top of cancer drugs that already do that, and many of them do...