TWIW 25: Cancer doctors reticent to offer lifestyle advice

This Week In Wellness Oncologists are unlikely to offer lifestyle tips that improve the health and reduce the risk of recurrence in cancer patients according to a survey conducted by the journal Cancer. The survey of primary care physicians, specialists and oncologists from the Midwestern Health System in America showed that less than 10% of specialists and only ¼ of oncologists would recommend lifestyle changes and that when oncologists did address lifestyle factors, it was usually because the patient brought the subject up. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-survivors/cancer-doctors-dont-focus-on-lifestyle-risks-idUSKCN1VG2AT https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.32410 The post TWIW 25: Cancer doctors reticent to offer lifestyle advice appeared first on The Wellness Couch.