Thanks for sharing your experience. That sounds brutal and I hope you're on the mend now!

I had heard on a podcast[1] about the Ensure thing quite awhile back, and I asked an MD acquaintance about it before I posted to make sure I wasn't about to post "fake news." The acquaintance is the one that then mentioned the appetite-inducing drugs. They're not an oncologist though so it's possible they're not up-to-speed on current practices, or more likely I misremembered their exact wording and they may have been referring to anti-nausea meds in the first place.

[1]: I think it was the Peter Attia Drive podcast with guest Dr. Rhonda Patrick