Nutrition and Exercise When Living With MBC

bctt on April 1, 2024

If you are living with MBC, a healthy diet and exercise can improve your overall health and your ability to tolerate treatment. Click to learn more and find relevant clinical trials.

Our New Partner: Unite for HER

bctt on October 31, 2023

Learn how Unite for HER provides integrative therapies such as nutrition, acupuncture, massage, yoga, and counseling to support and complement medical care for people with MBC.

Our New Partner: Unite for HER

bctt on October 31, 2023

Learn how Unite for HER provides integrative therapies such as nutrition, acupuncture, massage, yoga, and counseling to support and complement medical care for people with MBC.

Exercise and Stage 4 Breast Cancer

bctt on February 1, 2020

Research studies are finding that exercise plays an important role in the care of metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer care–including after diagnosis.

We’ve rounded up on some articles, personal stories, research studies, and videos that highlight the importance of keeping–or introducing–exercise in your life. Activities can actually help reduce fatigue. It can even help with the pain. And it can help improve your quality of life.

Learn why it’s safe and beneficial in the articles below.

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Dragon Boat Racing

bctt on November 1, 2019

Up until the late 1990s, women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer were told not to take part in upper body exercise. The concern: it would increase their risk for lymphedema. Then, the results of a study that enrolled women in an exercise and dragon boat racing program found that upper body exercise helped reduce lymphedema risk. Since then, many women with early-stage and metastatic breast cancer have taken up the sport. There are now 225 teams in 25 countries.

Below you will find links to articles about breast cancer and dragon boat racing, the study that showed dragon boat racing improved quality of life, a documentary that aired on local PBS channels, and the International Breast Cancer Paddler’s website and Facebook page–in case you want to learn how to get involved.