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Exercise and Chemotherapy

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The last study on exercise I’m going to look at this week examines the possibility of using exercise as training before chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy drugs are toxic to the body. The closer they can be designed for cancer cells without harming normal cells, the better, but we haven’t advanced to the point where that’s possible in every case. One chemotherapy, doxorubicin, is highly effective for some cancers, but it’s toxic to the heart. Researchers split a group of rats into three groups. One remained sedentary, one was allowed to run on a running wheel in their cage . . .

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Exercise and Breast Cancer Treatment

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Cancer treatment isn’t for wimps. Surgery can be difficult as can radiation treatment. But of all the common treatments that really seem to knock people for a loop, chemotherapy is tops. Nausea. Fatigue. Hair loss. Fortunately, there are some medications that can help with those side effects, but one of the things that may help the most is exercise. Let’s take a look at a study published just this month.

Researchers in Germany put women undergoing chemotherapy on a weight-training program, an endurance program, or continued with standard care that included neither. They were interested in how . . .

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Drinking Your Phytonutrients: Tea of Any Color

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Summer is here and with it, iced tea seems to be a staple drink. It gave me the idea to do a series on the phytonutrients we can get from our beverages. Getting people to eat vegetables can take some time, but everyone wants a cool drink in the summer and hot drink in the winter. This week is all about tea, coffee, and the latest research on both.

Let’s begin with tea from the leaves of Camellia sinensis. Based on world-wide statistics, black tea is consumed by 72% of the population while 36% drink green tea. Obviously . . .

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The Truth About Sunscreen!

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In today’s message, I’m going to examine the science behind the article on sunscreen that started this week’s look at reposting websites. There are three primary research findings used in the article that are supposed to blow the lid off the myth of sunscreen preventing cancer. Let’s take a look.
“Avoiding the sun doubles all-cause mortality”
This research finding is taken from an epidemiological study done at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute titled the Melanoma in Southern Sweden Study or MISS (1). The data does show that over 20 years in a group of close to . . .

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Breast Cancer: A Professional’s Story

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Since I began this series on Tuesday, many more readers have shared their stories. Please keep them coming; I will share more of them at some point. Paula asks that I thank the many people who have told their stories and wished her well; they all help maintain the positive attitude that aids healing.

I chose this response because it’s from a healthcare professional who is a survivor; she raises some important issues that you should know more about. Please read this final story from a breast cancer survivor because it’s really designed for you from someone who . . .

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Breast Cancer: A Man’s Story

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We usually think of breast cancer as a woman’s disease. For the most part, that’s true, but men get breast cancer as well. An estimated 2,360 or about 1% of all the diagnosed new cases of invasive breast cancer were estimated to be found in men in 2014. We’re more aware of breast cancer in men after some famous men talked about their experience with the disease: Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator for Massachusetts; Peter Criss, Kiss drummer; Ernie Green, former NFL football player; Rod Roddy, announcer for The Price is Right, and Richard Roundtree . . .

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Breast Cancer: Your Stories

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When Paula took over the message January 17 and told you about her experience with breast cancer, it produced a great number of responses. Most people wanted to let her know that she was not alone and that they were survivors as well. In my opinion, a few of the responses absolutely needed to be shared, so that’s what I’m doing this week. I’m not going to identify the people in any way, but they know who they are.

Why do this? Because every day, some reader, maybe you or maybe someone in your family, will get . . .

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Coping with Radiation Damage

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At some point in the future, people are going to look back at this time of cancer treatment as barbaric, but it’s the best we have today and we can’t use undiscovered treatments. However, we can help limit the damage radiation may cause to healthy tissue.

I may sound like a broken record, but it all starts with eating more vegetables and fruit; they contain vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients in the proper proportions to help your body. Cruciferous vegetables and berries are better choices but all are great. Green tea has phytonutrients that are beneficial if you can . . .

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Breast Cancer: Radiation Therapy

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Last week’s messages sparked questions related to breast cancer, so this week we’ll look at an improvement in radiation therapy for breast cancer that’s been in the news recently.

The most important thing to understand is that there are many different forms and degrees of breast cancer. The only way to understand the type of breast cancer you may be facing is to discuss it with your physicians. Some of the terms are estrogen-positive or -negative, invasive or contained, HER2-positive or -negative, and many more. If you don’t understand the words, get a full . . .

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Cancer: Do Your Best

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We’ve spent this week looking at whether many forms of cancer are just due to bad luck or whether other factors come into play. Based on the statistics derived from comparing the lifetime rate of getting a specific cancer and the cell division rate of the tissues, about two-thirds of cancer cases are due to chance. That leaves genetics and lifestyle choices to make up the rest—and remember, breast and prostate cancers were not included in the analysis.

Some cancers, lung cancer for example, are influenced by habits such as smoking. Colon cancer is influenced by genetics . . .

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