To help keep your nutrition profile on the right course, aim to follow these guidelines for a healthy, balanced, and nutritious diet plan during breast cancer treatment and recovery: Pick the best proteins. Instead of getting protein from animal products, particularly red meats like beef and pork, opt for proteins lower in saturated fats. This…
Women at high risk for breast cancer should make a special effort to adopt important lifestyle changes. If you’re female, you’re automatically at risk for breast cancer. That risk increases as you age, especially once you reach age 55. If you are Caucasian, take hormone replacement therapy, or have very dense tissue in your breasts,…
Even though men do not have breasts like women, they do have a small amount of breast tissue. In fact the “breasts” of an adult man are similar to the breasts of a girl before puberty, and consist of a few ducts surrounded by breast and other tissue. In girls, this tissue grows and develops…
Women who have a hysterectomy for ovarian cancer treatment are more likely to develop depression than women who had a hysterectomy for other reasons. In a hysterectomy, a woman’s reproductive organs, including the ovaries and uterus, are surgically removed, leaving her unable to have children. Women who are younger than age 40 are also at…
People with cancer and their families may feel guilty about their emotional responses to the illness. They may feel pressure to keep a positive attitude at all times, which is often unrealistic. This feeling of pressure can come from within themselves or from other people, or both. Sadness, depression, guilt, fear, and anxiety are all…
