Health Plans During And After Breast Cancer Treatment

Diet plays a significant role either when you don’t have breast cancer or you are receiving treatment for it. Any patient undergoing surgery, chemotherapy or some other treatment for breast cancer wants not only to successfully undergo the treatment but chances of recurrence this disease can also be reduced. Along many other factors diet plays a fundamental role in curing breast cancer successfully and lessening the chance of its second time attack.

Receiving treatment for breast cancer requires you to plan such a diet that can help you to strengthen your body against side effects of treatment. The foods selected to use should be such that may not only fight against cancerous cells but they can also fortify your immune system.

Grapes:

Grapes have polyphenols that work as antioxidant and they have some compounds that can prevent you from side effects of treatment. And in grapes red are considered to be more effective as they are more enriched with polyphenols.

Breast cancer cells grow more rapidly due to estrogen. Red grapes have resveratrol which helps in slowing down estrogen dependent cells growth.

Green Tea:

Green tea is full of catechins and other polyphenols to help in not only reducing breast cancer but also helps in converting cancerous cells in normal cells. 

Blueberries

Blueberries are considered to be highly enriched with all those compounds and acids which have proved anti-cancer elements. These are catechins, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, ferulic acid, gallic acid.

 Along with these foods garlic, onion, Kelly, tomatoes and cherries are also wonderful foods that helps you in lowering breast cancer risk and during and after breast cancer treatment. After you have successfully undergone breast cancer treatment it is advised that along with healthy diet plan do undergo breast cancer self examination to reduce recurrence chances of this disease.