Why Your Preferences Matter During Breast Cancer Treatment 

My issue is that doctors never talk about patient's role in supporting treatment and making it more effective. Nutrition and lifestyle choices are the patient's responsibility and if we don't pay attention or follow the common advice "you can eat whatever you want during treatment" or hear nothing about exercise, stress, sleep, smoking and alcohol, then we experience more severe side effects and increase the risk of recurrence.

Thank you, Dr. Griggs, for your continuous medical advice and support for breast cancer (health).

Excellent information! Thank you! ✨️ 🙌

Thank you for letting us know we do have a choice. Blessing

Thanks for this subject !

Thank you for helping people ❤

Thank you, just what I needed. After lumpectomy and re-excision I just decided not to take radiation treatment. I have LBBB and where I live they don't do deep inspiration breath hold. Thank you for all your great videos, so helpful ❤ I live in New Zealand

V informative and confidence boosting video. Most times doctors do paint us the worst scenario to push you into taking the course of treatment instead of percentage of re-uccerance if you don't. I opted out of low hormone therapy when I learnt that it would prevent a secondary metastasis by only 1-2%.for my in situ Pappillary carcinoma. Thanks

Thank you so much for this subject, I am in my 5th kemo infusion, it is getting harder and harder, constant fatigue. Total 6 cycles, I really want to just stop . Try to talk to my oncologist on last appointment, she ignore me proceed the schedule as planed I am under TCHP treatment right now. After third infusion, my MRI shows no mass(my oncologist replyed). I was at stage 2 ( 2cm) to start. Any suggestion going forward ?

Thank you. I appreciate your videos!

Have you got a list of questions for my 1st visit to my oncologist?

I have an oncotype of 23, and caught in between. Would you consider chemotherapy with only 6%benefits? Does the benefit of a 6%chemo benefit outweigh the risk and side effects. Pls help. Thanks 🙏

Do we have a choice if we want chemo and you are considered stage 1 but the primary IDC tumor ended up being bigger than expected, extensive DCIS & LCIS was found & you have extensive family history but no oncotype was done?

Thank you for this video. I recently started tamoxifen, knowing all about its benefits and side-effects. I know from one of your previous videos that we should allow at least 3 months for our body to get used to it, but after 3 weeks I was out of my mind: constant hot flashes and no more than 2 hours of sleep at a time (I'm 51, peri-menopausal, and could sleep like a rock for a solid 7 hours before this). There's Alzheimer's in my family, so I prioritize uninterrupted sleep, but this drug completely destroyed that. I stopped it about 2 1/2 weeks ago, and I'm feeling better (sleep isn't where it should be, but improving). I KNOW I need to restart it at some point, but I don't want to take additional drugs just for the stupid side-effects. I had stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma and a negative lymph node. My oncotype score was 16. Would I be a candidate for ovary removal? I know some of these issues (hot flashes, sleeplessness) are a result of my body not absorbing estrogen, but would these symptoms somehow be more manageable through no ovaries vs. taking tamoxifen ... and, later, AI's?