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Through in areas of high populations of breast cancer diet composition studies have found that these fish protein, vitamin D may have a protective effect against breast cancer. Medical experts used method of case-control study of the specific impact of diet on breast cancer relevance. Study of many types of meat, vegetables, fruits, drinks and so on. Results show that there is food of meat, egg, butter, cheese, cereals, sweets, animal fats increase the risk of breast cancer; and green vegetables, fruits, fish, dairy products can reduce breast cancer risk.

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Patients with breast cancer in their daily lives should pay attention to good care of themselves, improve the quality of life, do not be intimidated by breast cancer.

Do not be too tired and orderly living:
Died of breast cancer patients, the majority is due to irregular life, work pressure and other features. In fact, Zaoshuizaoqi do not stay up all night, non-smoking lifestyle to a certain extent, can help enhance physical fitness, to achieve the purpose of prevention of breast cancer.

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Treatment of breast cancer, and now they use an integrated approach combining Chinese and Western medicine, especially in the late, due to surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients brought great side effects, and the clinical application of Chinese medicine has greatly enhanced the patient’s treatment to alleviate the patient’s pain, to protect the patient’s quality of life. Of course, in breast cancer treatment, is inseparable from family members of patient care in every possible way, especially before and after the surgery, care should focus on the following aspects.

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Breast cancer patients during treatment and rehabilitation, family care on the therapeutic effects of its improved a great role in promoting. Experts suggest that families of patients, from the following two aspects of care of breast cancer patients carefully.

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Radical mastectomy, a very small percentage of patients due to axillary lymph node dissection, lymph return blocked, axillary poor venous return can cause ipsilateral upper extremity edema. At this point ipsilateral upper extremity should be hanging with the bandage on the chest, while strengthening the limb functional training, the promotion of upper limb blood circulation, increase the regenerative ability of the formation of collateral lymphatic vessels to lymph back flow to alleviate the ipsilateral upper extremity edema.

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The focus of post-operative care of breast cancer:

1. Ipsilateral upper extremity rehabilitation, training: 24 hours after surgery to encourage patients to wrist, and the Department of elbow flexion and extension movement, but to avoid the outreach arm. Get out of bed after 48 hours, activities, application of tape to prop up limbs Rotary, Rotary Do not take other people to support the affected side, so as not to affect the healing axillary flap slide. After 1 week of activities for the shoulder. 10-12 days to encourage patients to proceed with the surgery side of self-care, such as brushing teeth, hair, face, etc., and carry out joint activities in the entire upper arm.

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Breast Cancer Care should pay attention to rest and exercise, doing sick side of upper limb functional training to keep the blood return to smooth, clothing to wear disease first side of the first strip off the healthy side.

After discharge the patient should be kept ease of mind, emotional stability, pay attention to rest, not to fatigue, attention to dietary adjustments, proper exercise and protect the radiation parts of the skin on a regular basis to the hospital for review. Families in the care of breast cancer patients, paying particular attention to the following points:

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Regular activities can stimulate breast cancer patients who self-immune mechanism of resistance to stimulate the body’s natural resistance to diseases, effectively reversed the suppression status of breast cancer patients, therefore, exercise on breast cancer patients has beneficial rather than harmful. The type of movement under the patient’s specific situation will have to be chosen.

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Directly to the expansion of breast cancer around via lymphatic and blood flow. Lymph nodes by cancer cells is supposed to prevent the outside from the primary tumor Plaza of the first barrier, cancer cells through the lymph node barrier if they repeat offenders are usually supraclavicular lymph nodes, and then penetrated into the blood vein.

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