Narotam Pharmacy

10/10/2026

World Mental Health Day

09/10/2026

National Nutrition Week

08/10/2026

World Sight Day

08/10/2026

Breast Cancer Awareness.

Link pharmacies support patients during breast cancer chemotherapy by managing supportive medications, checking for dangerous drug interactions, and offering practical guidance regarding side effects.

Supportive care and managing side effects include:
• Anti-nausea regimens, and
• Pain and symptom relief
• Medication safety and coordination measures are:
• Drug interaction checks, including the screening of prescribed and OTC medication, vitamins, or herbal supplements that may conflict with chemotherapy,
• Oral chemotherapy management, ensuring that medication is adhered to, and taken at the right times, and
• Simplifying complex medication usage through pill boxes.

Pharmacists also collaborate with patients’ doctors and oncologists, creating a ‘circle of care’, and offer far more than dispensers of medication – as crucial as this function is.

They are important members of a multidisciplinary team treating a breast cancer patient. As independent community pharmacists, the chances are good the pharmacist has known the patient for years, if not decades, and the patient can talk freely to the pharmacist and share their journey, knowing they’ll be heard.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11352950/
https://pharmdlive.com/clinical-pharmacists-role-in-breast-cancertreatment-for-older-women/

07/10/2026

02/10/2026

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month

01/10/2026

International Day of Older Persons

01/10/2026

Breast Cancer Awareness.
Medications or supplements – including herbal supplements or over the counter medication – can interfere with chemotherapy. Talk to your pharmacist, doctor or oncologist for guidance or alternative suggestions.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/chemotherapy-for-breastcancer/about/pac-20384931

29/09/2026

World Heart Day

28/09/2026

World Retina Day