Dietary Considerations for Breast Cancer Patients

Although health insurance and adequate healthcare services are high priorities in the prevention and treatment of any disease, neither is as essential to breast cancer prevention and intervention as is diet. Health researchers agree that diet plays a major role in preventing breast cancer. They also agree that correct dietary advice is a dire need in the treatment of breast cancer. The dietary guidance and framework described in this book provides readers (breast cancer patients, their families, and others) with essential information that will enable them to make better decisions about how best to adjust their diets to alleviate and remedy this disease. Dietary guidance is also provide that helps patients reduce the side-effects of cancer treatments, specifically adjuvant therapies (radiation, chemotherapy and hormone therapy).

ISBN: 9780965886499; Pages: 176; Trim Size: 6x9