Cancer survivorship: Why patients need strategic lifestyle changes


During cancer survivorship, cancer survivors should engage in modifying some of the modifiable lifestyle risk factors such as excess weight and poor diet.

Promoting lifestyle strategies to help keep elderly cancer survivors able and functional.

Today, some cancers like prostrate, breast and colon cancer are considered chronic condition, with characteristic “persistent or recurring health consequences” lasting years. The many after-effects of cancer and treatments, and the issue of recurrence, require some level of self management.

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