Cancer a silent killer, Stand Up To Cancer, starting with healthy living as a way of life. Many believe that getting cancer is purely down to genes, fate or bad luck. Even though Good healthy living throughout one’s life can help prevent the possibility of such a deadly decease, Cancer affects the patient as well as family and friends. It affects any gender, race, young and old alike. Cancer does not discriminate… Whether you are preventing, fighting or surviving cancer, making even the smallest lifestyle changes can help you live cancer-free. It’s about taking small steps one at a time.
According to Know Cancer, they believe that healthy living must address the entire self: the physical self, the mental self, and the spiritual self. Medicine alone will not satisfy the needs of the body, mind, and spirit. By combining knowledge and wisdom with treatment (medical and holistic), we can all march to a healthy life. Within the last 20 years, cancer has become progressively more curable, certain types of cancer have a 70% survival rate in adults. Cancer prognosis is always discussed in terms of survival rates; there are 5 year, 10 year and even 15 years survival rates for various types of cancers at various stages.
Leukemia’s, brain tumors, and other nervous system tumors, lymphomas, bone cancers, soft tissue sarcomas, kidney cancers, eye cancers, and adrenal gland cancers are the most common types of childhood cancers. The primary modes of treatment for cancers include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy. Science has shown that the habits we adopt affect our risk of getting cancer. These habits include smoking, drinking alcohol, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, being overweight or obese and excessive sun exposure.
The most important reason Cancer affects the patient family and friends, is because Cancer does not discriminate… So you can see that although Good healthy living throughout one’s life can help prevent the possibility of such a deadly decease, Cancer affects the patient family and friends, for two main reasons. First, it affects any gender, race, young and old alike, Second cancer is a silent killer that can be prevented, regular check-ups and testing cancer can be treated if diagnose early . But most importantly, Cancer does not discriminate… Stand Up To Cancer – Through courage and perseverance, I am a survivor.