Optimizing nutrition after breast cancer treatment
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Patients should maintain a healthy weight to help ward off recurrence, studies showMany cancer patients end treatment underweight. Post-treatment breast cancer patients, however, often end up overweight. This can sometimes be attributed to medications such as steroids or chemotherapy. Or the patient is overweight to begin with. Losing this weight is a worthy goal as overweight and obese patients have an increased risk for cancer recurrence, studies say, as well as chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.