what is the best diet to follow after radiation therapy for breast cancer?

Question

I am especially interested in diets that can rebuild the female endocrine system.

Answer 1

The American Cancer Society has an excellent website on nutrition/diet after treatment. I recommend that.

Answer 2

There are a lot of theories about diet to help in the recovery from cancer, but nothing has been proven that eating certain foods will halt the cancer, prevent cancer....

It also depends on if the cancer you had was hormone receptive or not. Some foods to rebuild the endocrine system may not be good if your cancer is estrogen receptive.

I did chemo and radiation for breast cancer 3 years ago and ate what I could. Some foods tasted very metallic during radiation...like chewing aluminum foil

Answer 3

In response to amberofarabia's answer - the person you refer to is Jane Plant; she is NOT a medical doctor but a professor of geology ie a specialist in rocks, not people and certainly not cancer. If you actually read her book you will see that when she had her eureka moment and decided to give up dairy, she was undergoing a course of chemotherapy. She continued with the chemotherapy as well as giving up dairy, but put the shrinking of her lump down to the absence of dairy rather than the chemo.

I write this as a vegan myself - I had not eaten dairy for almost a decade when guess what? - I was diagnosed with breast cancer. If dairy was the cause of or avoiding it the cure for breast cancer I'd still have two breasts.

Beyondenchante, you are likely to be feeling very tired as a result of your treatment - I know because I've been there. The best way to build your strength is to take moderate exercise and to eat a healthy diet. I'm sure you already know what constitutes a healthy diet - plenty of fruit and veg, whole grains, juices etc - just put it into practice and don't be persuaded to undertake a very restrictive diet or to fork out money for the expensive remedies that people will always try to sell you in these circumstances.

Good luck.

Answer 4

No meats and no dairy. There was a female doctor in Britain who got cancer( I'm 90% sure it was breast cancer) and stopped eating all dairy and went into a long term successful remission.She created her own cancer fighting diet. I believe there was a Dateline show, or 60 minutes show about it a few years back. I forget her name, but try to look her up if you can. I would eat mainly or all organic food. The colorful fruits and veggies are the best. "Eat the rainbow" as they say. Bell peppers, legumes, fruit, hummus, broccoli, carrots, rice, and apples with oats and brown sugar would be good, as well as other stuff like that, including some fish but not too much as earths pollutants are causing mercury levels in fish to rise.Go down to your local library and sift through the books on healthy eating, diet and cancer and how to fight it. I bet you you will find out much more than I could tell you. I wish you so much good luck and happiness. And healthy eating!