How do you counsel your breast-cancer survivors about weight-loss/dietary modifications?
Do your recommendations differ if patients are pre or postmenopausal given the data?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Normal body mass index (BMI) and maintenance of weight is associated with a more favorable outcome (in many series both cancer-related and non-related) compared to higher BMI. Similarly higher level of exercise and metabolic equivalent (MET) is also associated with better outcome in many observation...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
The data is compelling that excess adipose tissue is bad for outcomes based on metabolic dysfunction, excess hormones, and excess inflammation. I generally counsel patients based on the dozens of randomized studies that exist for weight loss in patients without cancer. There overwhelmingly show that...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
All of the above! Minimizing inflammation is so important. I would also add that I tell my patients with (early stage) breast ca about the benefits of time-restricted eating (a.k.a. therapeutic or intermittent fasting). I was very encouraged by the study published in JAMA Oncology in 2016 in w...
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Radiation Oncologist at AdventHealth Orlando (previously Florida Hospital) I counsel my patients towards a whole foods plant ...