1. Actually, one needs to be very clear here that dietary change without the ~30 min of exercise per day, 6 days per week showed a barely significant change in mortality rate. And,exercise without dietary change also showed a barely significant benefit. They must be combined.

Also, the survival benefit was no greater for ER-negative tumors.

Also, 45% patients were on tamoxifen which could very well alter results.

So, the title of your post is a misleading for the reason that diet ALONE showed little benefit and as for it being the KEY in breast cancer survival? One cannot say that.

I think we have a responsibility to the blog readers to publish accurate summaries.

Posted at 1:14PM on Jun 13th 2007 by hchcec

2. Amen.

Posted at 11:56PM on Jun 13th 2007 by luckylady1943

3. "~30 min of exercise per day, 6 days per week showed a barely significant change in mortality rate. And,exercise without dietary change also showed a barely significant benefit." is not in the article and therefore is an inaccurate interpretation of the article. Or did you mean this:
"Women coping with breast cancer deserve to know that plant-based diets and regular exercise can spell the difference between life and death."

Nope, can't find any info on Tamoxifen in the the summarized article either.

How about: "Also, the survival benefit was no greater for ER-negative tumors."
Would anyone know this from the article???

And actually, ONE can say what they want if it is
their blog and those with pompous, condescending attitudes purporting themselves to be experts while hiding behind initials should perhaps get their own blog instead of "marking" everyone else's.

Posted at 9:32PM on Jun 14th 2007 by jan

4. My bad, Jan.

Here's the link to the entire study. Everything I mention is there if you care to take the time to read. I have access to the entire article. Perhaps you do, too.

http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/17/2345
(click on full text.)

Nice reply to the study
http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/reprint/25/17/2335


(I'm not hiding. I'm right here. And that's merely an ad hominem that doesn't address the problem of selectively choosing what one wants to hear or blog.

Posted at 11:43PM on Jun 14th 2007 by hchcec

5. How very nice of you to share the links to the original research with us, however, the blogger was not summarizing the abstract but merely summarizing an article upon which did not reveal the information you shared with us. There was no responsibility on the part of the blogger to track down the original research and summarize that.

I'm fairly certain blog readers are not depending on this site to dictate how they respond to their cancer. If the topic is interesting or we think it has merit we can look further into it ourselves.

Posted at 3:50PM on Jun 15th 2007 by jan