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Question regarding losing weight with breast cancer and other problems?

So, my mom is overweight and in her fifties. She just went through breast cancer and previously had knee surgery. She doesn’t exercise much and has a horrible diet. What are the steps that she should take in-order to lose weight and feel healthy?

hi i just asked a question about 40 minutes ago about losing my job after 32 years thanks to all who answered,

i needed positive feedback and some compassion, my mother died of breast cancer and i worked for a hospital, thats is really depressing, i have asked my family doctor for a phyc. consultation. my personal physician is also the hospitals director of the board. so thanks for all the responses so far i need help. and money, they cut off my unemployment because they told unemployment i was working some where part time. i will never work again. i have been reduced to nothing, now receivng medicaid, in the welfare line. how sad after 32 years of dedicated service. the person i trained, was about 9 years younger then myself. i was 50 at the time. no hard feeling for her. and noone has stayed in touch with me.
thanks again for trying to help me. god bless all of you, for trying to help me. there still are good people out there. i will always believe that. and what goes around comes around. i’m not a mean person i would do anything for anyone.

Is medical science losing the war against chronic illness?

The risk that a 50-year-old white woman will develop Breast Cancer has soared to 12 percent today from one percent in 1975.

Likewise, asthma rates have tripled over the last 25 years

Childhood leukemia is increasing by one percent per year.

Such statistics show the alarming rise in incidences of chronic diseases.

Heart disease is increasing from air pollution and trans fats.

Lung cancers in non smokers, and not even exposed to 2nd hand smoke, from chemicals and smog.

… and so on.

This tragic epidemic of deadly and chronic disease comes after 50 years of so called “medical Science research”. They didn’t do much good for all the money that was spent – things got WORSE.

We are not better off that we were 50 years ago, so that pretty well indicates that we are on the wrong path. Serious and crucial changes need to be made. Would it not be better to change the emphasis from research into managing illness after the fact to preventing it in the first place?

Perhaps these folks had the right ideas:

“Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.” – Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefeller Institute.)

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” – Thomas Edison
What a predictable firestorm of resentful insults, smokescreens & bias. “My ilk”? “Stop Lying”?

Fact: studies have indeed linked air pollution to causing twice as many heart disease deaths as it does lung cancer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/16/health/main588941.shtml

Fact: Breast cancer rates have increased for black women and stayed constant for hispanic women. When you couple earlier detection (thus more 5 year survivors who usually still go on to die from cancer or their treatments) and the inclusion of essentially pre-cancerous virtually 100% survivable conditions previously not counted as cancer, the improvement is marginal.

Fact: despite all the figure juggling, more people get and die from cancer every year.

Fact: more heart disease and diabetes each year and it cannot be attributed merely to age.

So who’s lying?

Dave, only a 1% annual increase in ALL childhood deaths would wipe out the human race in less than 100 years. Remedial math?
lo-mcg, congratulations on your success thus far and I pray you will continue to enjoy a cancer free and healthy life. Dietary changes MIGHT have helped you both prevent and cure your cancer but, while I think proper diet is essential, I would never rely on diet alone. I’ll send you some info on what I consider critical and hope you find it helpful.

Now, according to:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=575

the incidence of breast cancer increased by 80% from 1975 to 2000, though it has remained fairly steady in recent years.

About 20 percent of breast cancers diagnosed are DCIS. This is a non-invasive condition where the cancer cells are all within the ducts in the breast and which is 98-99% curable. In 1975, when DCIS was not included in cancer statistic but was considered a pre-cancerous condition, 10 year survival rates in the UK were 41%. That increased to 72-73% by 2000-2003, but when you take out DCIS you see the actual increase of only 11-12%.
Even when using the 1% plus decreases of recent years, a virtual elimination of breast cancer would still be a lifetime away. I note that survival rates after 10 years are still declining, and the incidence and deaths from many other forms of cancer continue to increase.

According to the latest estimates, cancer deaths are expected to increase by 50% globally by 2020 and double by 2030.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr27/en/

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20081209/global-cancer-deaths-double-2030

Men saw slightly larger declines in cancer death rates (1.5% per year during 1993-2001 and 2.0% per year during 2001-2006) compared to women (0.8% per year during 1994-2002 and 1.5% per year during 2002-2006).
Estimates of continued declines in cancers make assumptions that may be somewhat rosy – for example, continued improvements in screening (though cancer detections rates are now declining), continued reduction in tobacco use (which may not happen to the extent predicted) and the rate of obesity holding steady (though it has steadily increased for decades). The estimates also fail to take into account the increased toxic burden industrialized societies are placing upon their peoples.

I agree that increased longevity leads to increases in chronic illnesses including cancer. However, such increases do not account for anywhere near the total increases – chronic illness is increasing in all age groups.

The problem I was trying to address was the lack of emphasis on preventing chronic illness in the first place and actually curing when prevention fails instead of managing symptoms. Not as good of a profit model (and that surely gets in the way) but a much better health model.
Fitzbap, we are not a society of fatties because of our doctors – we are a society of fatties because of the crap that passes for food and we have been lulled into a sedentary lifestyle by the boob tube and our own laziness AND because of the lack of emphasis by medical science and medical educations on educating and encouraging us and our doctors about the role of proper diet and lifestyle.

Though some may deny it, our doctors generally have received a very deficient education in the roles of diet and nutrition. I know too many doctors who have told me how lacking their eductions were in those areas (one said he had but a single lecture, others only a couple and some none at all).

Obesity rates track very closely with the advent of fast and junk foods and with the low-fat, no fat, transfat foods that we have been sold on. Check out this graphic:

http://www.weight.com/obesity_2001.gif

help , how do i cope with losing someone in my family?

my grandma is about 90 years old i think… and well i havent ever really gotten the chance to get close to her. my mom always hated her blah blah blah…. i never thought this day would come… but it is … i guess my grandma has breast cancer? and now she is in the hospital and her lung is dieing.. idk if that makes sense or if my facts are correct … but it seems like its the end of the road here… ive never had anyone close in my family pass away, even though we arent that close…. shes still my grandmother. how am i supposed to cope with this? when ever i hear of a friend of the family that passes, i still get emotional… and cry…. but what do i do now? my poor father is the nicest guy, hes very genuine … i dont know how to help him cope either..

Benign breast lumps; I’m losing my mind?

For the last few years, my mom (age 58) has had benign breast lumps, several small and a few large. The first large one was checked by mammogram, ultrasound, and needle biopsy – no cancer. A year later (last year), that same lump was checked again with the same 3 methods – again, no cancer. The surgeon said not to worry about it; he didn’t want to remove it unless he had to. However, a large lump in the opposite breast was biopsied and came back with abnormal results. The lump was surgically removed, and when the path report came back, no cancer. She was released from the surgeon’s care after 1 follow-up appt. and was told to see her GYN in 1 year. (Background: No family history of breast cancer, had me when she was 31, beginning of menses at normal age, menopause around age 52.)

Questions:
How can a biopsy come back abnormal, but when the actual lump was removed and checked, it was non-cancerous?

Is it really okay that the surgeon told my mom to follow-up with her GYN as normal an entire year later?

How big is her risk of cancer based on previous findings and the fact that she has these lumps?

She has her annual appt. with the GYN in 2 days. Her best friend passed away yesterday, so she’s a mess. I’m a mess too; not only did I regard her friend as my adopted grandma, but now I have my mom’s health to worry about. My mom has bipolar disorder and I have panic/anxiety disorder, so I have to help her through this grief without either one of us going downhill in the mental department.

Believe me, any answers or advice you can give me would likely save me from insanity! I appreciate everybody’s comments!