StemCell Therapy

Dr David Glass - MBChB, FCOG (SA)

This is the last article in the series on Lifestyle Medicine and breast cancer, basically using the book by Dr Kristi Funk as our main resource. As a breast surgeon who is an expert in breast cancer, she deals with much more than just the lifestyle aspects of the disease, and it is beyond the scope of these blogs to go into the medical, surgical and oncological treatments. They all have a definite place. Let me remind you that Lifestyle Medicine is not against proven medical/surgical/oncological therapies. But it does provide a base for the preventative/health promoting environment of your body to enhance health and often prevent a large part of these diseases that affect our bodies in the first place. However if this fails, and we live in a hostile cancer promoting environment, then by all means utilise the resources available to manage these diseases appropriately.

ALSO READ : Turning the Tide Lifestyle Medicine and Breast Cancer (Part 6)

What we will cover in this article is a brief overview of some of the medications that have been shown to protect the body from either developing breast cancer some which were only discovered long after to benefit in this way; or medications that interfere in the progression of breast cancer.

Specific medications for breast cancer inhibition/prevention:

Non-specific medications for breast cancer inhibition:

Hopefully this series on breast cancer has empowered you to study how you can adopt lifestyle changes to prevent this most common cancer amongst women.

There is so much you can do to avoid this disease that has affected so many women you know.

Next week we will begin a short series on one of the most common cancers of men prostate cancer, and explore how lifestyle medicine can prevent, or even in the early stages reverse prostate cancer.

Until then, dont tire of keeping safe in the face of the Covid-19 threat by social distancing, washing hands frequently, using alcohol-containing hand cleanser, avoiding touching your face, eyes or nose unless you have just washed your hands, and now the latest wearing a cloth face mask when in public.

Kind regards,

Dave Glass

Dr David Glass graduated from UCT in 1975. He spent the next 12 years working at a mission hospital in Lesotho, where much of his work involved health education and interventions to improve health, aside from the normal busy clinical work of an under-resourced mission hospital.

He returned to UCT in 1990 to specialise in obstetrics/gynaecology and then moved to the South Coast where he had the privilege of, amongst other things, ushering 7000 babies into the world. He no longer delivers babies but is still very clinically active in gynaecology.

An old passion, preventive health care, has now replaced the obstetrics side of his work. He is eager to share insights he has gathered over the years on how to prevent and reverse so many of the modern scourges of lifestyle obesity, diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, common cancers, etc.

He is a family man, with a supportive wife, and two grown children, and four beautiful grandchildren. His hobbies include walking, cycling, vegetable gardening, bird-watching, travelling and writing. He is active in community health outreach and deeply involved in church activities. He enjoys teaching and sharing information.

Read more:
Turning the Tide Lifestyle Medicine and Breast Cancer (Part 7) - South Coast Herald

This entry was posted on April 15, 2020 at 3:48 am and is filed under Preventative Medicine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. |