It’s not revelatory to say that cancer treatment is hard, but you don’t realise quite how brutal it is until you go through it. My breast cancer treatment involved 16 cycles of chemotherapy, followed by a 10-hour operation and a week in hospital for mastectomy with reconstruction and lymph node clearance. We all know heavy-drinking chain-smokers who live for a long time, and sadly many of us have known healthy young people with cancer. Here’s where to start:Take regular exercise – it doesn’t have to be for longStrengthening your body is the most powerful anti-cancer thing you can do. If these benefits were the result of a new drug, it would make headlines as an enormous breakthrough in cancer treatment.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 28, 2023 22:08 UTC