Holistic Breast Cancer Prevention
A healthy lifestyle offers protection now. What changes can you make to reduce your breast cancer risk or ease your treatment? According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful.
- Get a checkup
See your healthcare professional once a year for a breast exam and mammogram to detect disease before it becomes advanced
- Cut back on cocktails, but not on nutrition
Limit your alcohol consumption and take a multivitamin containing folic acid to reduce alcohol-related breast cancer risk
- Eat risk-reducing foods
Add plenty of fiber, tomato products, soy products, and fish to your diet
- Seek support
If you have breast cancer, join a weekly patients' group for social support
