Breast Cancer Awareness India - Prashanti Cancer Care

Breast Cancer Treatment: What Side Effects Can You Expect? This week’s blog post will be focusing on the topic of the side effects of breast cancer treatment. Different treatments for breast cancer will help you beat your disease in the long run, but unfortunately some of the main immediate problems that patients face are side effects of these treatments. Hormonal therapy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are some of the most common treatments, and while you're preparing for them, we want to best prepare you so that you are able to remain informed about the possible side effects that you may experience. Hormonal Therapy Hormonal therapy may include estrogen or progesterone inhibitor drugs. As a cause of the additional hormones in your body, which causes hormonal imbalance, you may experience:   1. Fatigue 2. Constipation, Diarrhoea, and/or Nauseousness 3. Abnormal menstrual cycles 4. Menopausal state 5. Hair loss and thinning  6. Weight loss   7. Bone

Welcome to this week’s blog post. Today we’ll be talking about nutrition and breast cancer including your diet during treatment and recovery. Breast cancer treatment is often very brutal to the body, and having a healthy nutrition plan is key to successfully recovering. How Frequent Should Your Meals Be? First and foremost, it is important to have a balanced meal as the body needs proper nutrition and energy to recover. Chemotherapy, radiation, hormonal therapy etc. affect your diet as they have quite a few side effects, but it is essential to maintain your diet. Treatment causes changes in appetite so during treatment it is better to have short and frequent meals Radiation therapy might cause nausea and vomiting- however, it is important that you do not stop eating as your body requires the nutrients and energy. Ask your doctor which anti-sickness drug is safe to consume for you. Drink a lot of fluids: water, tea, juices, smoothies to help your body rehydrate at regular inte