The Patient Perspective on lifestyle and cancer treatment

Lifestyle and cancer.  Talk to a hundred different people and you may get a hundred different answers on the factors that contribute to a cancer diagnosis.  As a patient who has explored all options – including complementary, alternative and holistic treatments – after diagnosis and again after disease progression, being under the gun looking for a way to save your own life will force you to look at every aspect of “how did I get here?” and “what do I do now?” As an oncologist, patients look to you for these answers, and too often, the wild west of the...