Food for Breast Cancer articles
Articles are updated continually as new research becomes available
Adriamycin (doxorubicin)
- Factors influencing Adriamycin (doxorubicin) effectiveness
- Foods to eat and avoid during Adriamycin chemotherapy
Aromatase inhibitors
- Aromatase inhibitor treatment and weight gain
- Foods that act as aromatase inhibitors
- Foods to eat & avoid during aromatase inhibitor treatment
- Impact of endocrine therapy (hormone therapy) on BC prognosis
Breast cancer prognosis
- BC patients who gain weight after diagnosis have worse prognosis
- Exercise and breast cancer survival
- Hormone receptor and HER2 status changes can influence prognosis
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer
- Obesity increases risk of breast cancer and worsens prognosis
Breast cancer risk factors
- Antibiotics and breast cancer
- Benign breast disease and breast cancer
- Birth control pill use and breast cancer
- Blood type and breast cancer
- Breast density and breast cancer risk and recurrence
- Breast reduction surgery and breast cancer
- Cadmium increases the risk of breast cancer
- Effects of exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) on BC risk and recurrence
- Exposure to phthalates and breast cancer
- Family history means higher risk and getting cancer at a younger age
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer
- HPV and breast cancer
- Reducing inflammation could lower BC risk and increase survival
- Screening mammograms should start at age 40
- Some occupations are associated with increased risk of breast cancer
- Type 2 diabetes increases breast cancer risk
Breast cancer treatment
- Chemo brain symptoms and outcomes
- Fasting during chemotherapy
- Morphine during surgery might increase risk of metastasis
Cisplatin
Ductal breast cancer & DCIS
- Breast cancer types
- DCIS recurrence & survival data
- Ductal breast cancer and DCIS characteristics
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) prognosis
Familial breast cancer
- BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
- Family history means higher risk and getting cancer at a younger age
- Foods to eat and avoid for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers
- Protecting daughters from breast cancer — Teen years & young adulthood
- Protecting our daughters from BC — Prenatal period & infancy
- Protecting our daughters from breast cancer — Childhood and puberty
- Protecting our sons from breast cancer
Food and supplements
- Aspirin and breast cancer
- Breast cancer patients and survivors should limit red wine
- Fasting during chemotherapy
- Fiber is an important part of breast cancer diet
- High glycemic load should be avoided in breast cancer diet
- How to optimize your breast cancer diet
- How to optimize your breast cancer diet — an example
- Multivitamins and breast cancer
- No specific foods or diets can cure breast cancer
- Recommended fatty fish for breast cancer patients & survivors
- Some foods should always be purchased organic
- Supplements with warnings for breast cancer
- The Mediterranean diet is a good starting point for breast cancer
- The raw food diet is not ideal for breast cancer
- To those who are thinking of using a raw food diet alone to treat BC
- Vitamin C and breast cancer
- Vitamin D is important before and after breast cancer diagnosis
HER2 positive (HER2+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Foods to eat and avoid during treatment with Herceptin
- Foods to eat and avoid for HER2+ patients and survivors
- HER2 positive breast cancer prognosis
- HER2+ breast cancer characteristics
- HER2+ recurrence & survival data
- Hormone receptor and HER2 status changes can influence prognosis
Hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- ER+/PR+ breast cancer characteristics
- Foods to eat and avoid for ER+/PR+ patients and survivors
- Hormone receptor and HER2 status changes can influence prognosis
- Hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer prognosis
- Hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) recurrence & survival data
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
- Foods to eat and avoid for inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
- Inflammatory breast cancer characteristics
Lobular breast cancer & LCIS
- Breast cancer types
- Foods to eat and avoid for lobular breast cancer patients & survivors
- Lobular breast cancer and LCIS characteristics
- Lobular breast cancer prognosis
- Lobular breast cancer recurrence & survival data
Male breast cancer
- Male breast cancer recurrence & survival data
- Male breast cancer risk, treatment and prognosis
- Protecting our sons from breast cancer
Mixed hormone receptor (ER+/PR- or ER-/PR+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- ER-/PR+ breast cancer characteristics
- ER+/PR- breast cancer characteristics
- Foods to eat and avoid for ER-/PR+ patients and survivors
- Foods to eat and avoid for ER+/PR- patients and survivors
- Mixed hormone receptor (ER+/PR- or ER-/PR+) breast cancer prognosis
Old age
Proliferation (Ki-67)
- Foods to eat and avoid to reduce breast cancer proliferation (Ki-67)
- Ki-67-based breast cancer recurrence data
- Tumor proliferation, as measured by Ki-67, predicts BC outcomes
Radiation treatment (radiotherapy)
Tamoxifen
- Foods to eat and avoid during tamoxifen treatment
- Gynecological side effects of tamoxifen
- Impact of endocrine therapy (hormone therapy) on BC prognosis
- Tamoxifen and alcohol
- Tamoxifen and turmeric or curcumin supplements
Taxol (paclitaxel)
- Factors influencing Taxol (paclitaxel) effectiveness
- Foods to eat and avoid during Taxol chemotherapy
Triple negative (ER-/PR-/HER2-) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Foods to eat & avoid for triple negative (ER-/PR-/HER2-) breast cancer
- Influence of BMI, metabolic syndrome and diabetes on TN prognosis
- Patterns of recurrence in triple negative breast cancer patients
- Prognosis of African Americans and Latinas with triple negative BC
- Prognosis of triple negative breast cancer compared to other subtypes
- Triple negative (ER-/PR-/HER2-) breast cancer prognosis
- Triple negative breast cancer characteristics
- Triple negative breast cancer prognosis according to age at diagnosis
- Triple negative breast cancer recurrence & survival data
- Tumor characteristics influencing prognosis of triple negative BC
Women of color
- African-American breast cancer patients can improve their outcomes
- Breast cancer in Asian Americans
- Latinas less likely to develop BC but outcomes are less favorable
- Prognosis of African Americans and Latinas with triple negative BC
- Screening mammograms should start at age 40
Young age
- Breast cancer in very young women
- Family history means higher risk and getting cancer at a younger age
- Screening mammograms should start at age 40
- Triple negative breast cancer prognosis according to age at diagnosis
- Young breast cancer survivors can reduce risk of recurrence