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The best cancer treatment: having a healthy body

As long as there is no bullet proof cure for cancer, it all boils down to Darwin's survival of the fittest. The best way to get ahead of cancer is:
- making sure you don't get cancer
- making sure your body has all it can get to kill cancer cells
Cancer prevention boils down to eating and living healthy, keeping a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Easier said than done in a world were your job stresses you out, car smoke pollutes your air, food is filled with residu's and water is polluted.

But if your life is dear to you, then you cannot use all the above as an excuse. Father had been smoking, had worked with asbestos and didn't eat much vegetables nor fruit. Father died with metastatic liver cancer in a way I wouldn't even wish my worst enemy.

When your life is dear to you, start doing all the things that our metastatic liver cancer survivors are doing:

1. Believe there is a cure : believe it like you believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

2. Use conventional medicine like chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation therapy.

3. Use alternative cancer treatments to boost your immune system and overall health:
- the healthier you are: the better you can fight of diseases and
- the healthier you are: the better chemotherapy could work for you
4. Follow an holistic health approach: having a healthy spirit in a healthy body:
- focus on less stress,
- more relaxation,
- more exercise (Jim's son is swimming twice a week for both exercise and relaxation),
- a healthy diet based on organic products
- make sure you have a hobby to pass your time doing something you love
5. Make sure you have money or good health insurance to buy what you need to better achieve all of the above.

6. Surround yourself with as many loving and helpful creatures you can find: according to pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze:

"you gotta have a dog"
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Breast cancer radiation side effects

Breast cancer radiation side effects are much less compared to the side effects of chemotherapy. And the radiation therapy itself is completely painless.

The main side effect of breast cancer radiation is tiredness. You won’t be tired all the time though but sometimes extreme fatigue can take the upper hand. Make sure you have a lot of rest afterwards.

Radiation can be compared with sunbathing, so sun burnt side-effects can occur like:

skin colouring pinkish, red or darker
skin-burn which happens more with patients who had a lumpectomy compared to patients who had a mastectomy without any breast reconstruction
peeling of the skin
crispy and swollen skin
flu like symptoms you also have after a severe sunburn

The hospital should provide you with creams to counter these side effects. At home, keep on using Aloe Vera which is very soothing. Whatever cream you use, try it out first on a small area to see whether your cream doesn’t aggravate the problem.

Some people that got breast cancer radiation therapy also complain about:

a loss of appetite
soreness of the breast
heartburn and nausea when during the radiation also the oesophagus gets radiated

Please share your breast cancer radiation side effects and remedies in a comment!

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