Beat Breast Cancer: How Simple Lifestyle Tweaks May Save Lives
I am an oncologist.
I see hundreds of patients with breast cancer.
Every year.
A recent study highlights the positive impact of a healthy diet and exercise intervention during chemotherapy, particularly in breast cancer patients.
Researchers examined breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy before therapy.
We, oncologists, call this approach neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with neo meaning “before” and adjuvant meaning “in addition to [surgery].”
Lifestyle and Outcomes After Neoadjuvant Chemo
We start with an interesting hypothesis: Exercise and a high-quality diet can improve chemotherapy completion rates and breast cancer prognosis.
Before we get to the study findings, I need to introduce pCR.
A pathologic complete response (pCR) is the complete disappearance of all invasive cancer in the breast or regional lymph nodes after neoadjuvant…
