One of the reasons that the number of cancer suffers has grow is the fact that many more people undergo routine screening and early detection has increased the number of sufferers. Health care workers estimate that the USA has ten million cancer sufferers, which represents a figure between 3 and 4 percent of the population. However it is expected that in the next ten years the proportion will increase as more people are getting older and more people survive cancer.
However, it does not change the fact that cancer survivors have a greater risk for developing serious conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis as well as secondary cancers. This is likely to be both a result of lifestyle and genetic risk factors. As a general rule, physical exercise, eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and reducing a fat and sugar intake will offer significant protection against most serious conditions.
Yet the fact is that most cancer patients do not significantly change their lifestyle after being cured. Most of the breast cancer risk factors described is related to a womans exposure to estrogen including early menstruation, late menopause which increases the total amount of monthly cycles. Risks are reduced when a woman has an early first birth and an early menopause.
Holmes MD, Chen WY, Feskanich D, Kroenke CH, Colditz GA studied 2987 women diagnosed with stage I, II or III breast cancer they found that an increase in exercise reduced the amount of deaths from cancer in 2005. The most improvement was found in those women that walked for between 3 and 5 hours a week. Results were positive from a study by Pierce JP, Stefanick ML, Flatt SW et al (2007) entitled Greater survival after breast cancer in women who are physically active with high vegetable-fruit intake regardless of obesity; indicated that the combination of consuming at least five servings of fresh vegetables or fruits and increasing their physical activity to at least half an hour a day for six days a week increased the number of women who survived estrogen positive receptor tumors.
In women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, studies have shown a positive link between treatment failure and high intakes of fat both saturated fat and polyunsaturated fat. The fresh start trial studied newly diagnosed breast and prostate cancer patients and it found that directly mailing patients to encourage a healthy lifestyle including eating less fat, more fruit and vegetables than other conventional methods. Although this is in tune with psychological cognitive behavioural patterns it needs more research to observe results (Demark-Wahnefried W, Clipp EC, Lipkus IM et al (2007).
However, it does not change the fact that cancer survivors have a greater risk for developing serious conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis as well as secondary cancers. This is likely to be both a result of lifestyle and genetic risk factors. As a general rule, physical exercise, eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and reducing a fat and sugar intake will offer significant protection against most serious conditions.
Yet the fact is that most cancer patients do not significantly change their lifestyle after being cured. Most of the breast cancer risk factors described is related to a womans exposure to estrogen including early menstruation, late menopause which increases the total amount of monthly cycles. Risks are reduced when a woman has an early first birth and an early menopause.
Holmes MD, Chen WY, Feskanich D, Kroenke CH, Colditz GA studied 2987 women diagnosed with stage I, II or III breast cancer they found that an increase in exercise reduced the amount of deaths from cancer in 2005. The most improvement was found in those women that walked for between 3 and 5 hours a week. Results were positive from a study by Pierce JP, Stefanick ML, Flatt SW et al (2007) entitled Greater survival after breast cancer in women who are physically active with high vegetable-fruit intake regardless of obesity; indicated that the combination of consuming at least five servings of fresh vegetables or fruits and increasing their physical activity to at least half an hour a day for six days a week increased the number of women who survived estrogen positive receptor tumors.
In women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, studies have shown a positive link between treatment failure and high intakes of fat both saturated fat and polyunsaturated fat. The fresh start trial studied newly diagnosed breast and prostate cancer patients and it found that directly mailing patients to encourage a healthy lifestyle including eating less fat, more fruit and vegetables than other conventional methods. Although this is in tune with psychological cognitive behavioural patterns it needs more research to observe results (Demark-Wahnefried W, Clipp EC, Lipkus IM et al (2007).
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