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How AntiCancer Are You? (Simple Online Calculator)

Feb 26, 2020 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

These basic (and modifiable) lifestyle variables are among the most highly associated with cancer development, recurrence and progression. Calculate your risk score with this simple online tool. ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction

Optimizing Our Health

Jul 9, 2018 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Dr. Brian Lawenda's introductory lecture at the 2018 UsToo International Prostate Cancer Pathways for Patients & Caregivers Conference (June 23, 2018). The topics discussed are relevant to both men and women and those with and without ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction, Featured Posts, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs

Dr. Lawenda Discusses The Importance Of Second Opinions In Prostate Cancer Care

Jul 29, 2017 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

KNDU/NBC TV "Living Well" Show: Dr. Lawenda Discusses The Importance Of Second Opinions In Prostate Cancer Care (July 29, 2017) In most cases, a new diagnosis of prostate cancer doesn't need to be treated (or even screened in the first place.) ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Featured Posts, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs

Dr. Lawenda Discusses How Inflammation Fuels Cancers and Chronic Diseases

May 22, 2017 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

KNDU/NBC TV "Living Well" Show: Dr. Lawenda Discusses How Inflammation Fuels Cancers and Chronic Diseases (May 20, 2017) https://vimeo.com/218490922 I think most of us typically think of inflammation as our body’s protective response to ...
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Topics Covered: Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction, Featured Posts

Dr. Lawenda Discusses How To Optimize The Immune System

Mar 27, 2017 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

KNDU/NBC TV "Living Well" Show: Optimizing The Immune System (March 27, 2017) https://vimeo.com/210275456 ...
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Dr. Lawenda Discusses Colon and Rectal Cancer

Mar 15, 2017 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

KNDU/NBC TV "Living Well" Show: Colorectal Cancer (March 11, 2017) https://vimeo.com/208164143 ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Featured Posts

Toxic Produce, Light Therapy, Ketogenic Diet And More

Apr 20, 2016 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

The 2016 "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean Fifteen" Lists Are Out EWG's "Dirty Dozen" for the first time rates strawberries as the #1 most toxic produce item. They are contaminated by pesticides linked to cancer, reproductive and developmental damage, ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Featured Posts

Resistance Exercise Beats Aerobic Exercise

Oct 3, 2015 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

I counsel patients all the time on the beneficial effects of physical activity on cancer outcomes: lower risk of developing cancer lower risk of cancer progression lower risk of cancer recurrence lower risk of dying from cancer may even ...
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Exercise May Make Chemotherapy Work Better

Mar 16, 2015 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

If you want to supercharge the effect of your chemotherapy, get out there and exercise. A new study done in mice, finds that when combined with chemotherapy, exercise slowed tumor growth and increased tumor cell death by 150% more than ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise

Controlling Blood Sugar and Reversing Insulin Resistance

Feb 20, 2015 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Having high-blood sugar levels and insulin resistance is a bad combination. They increase systemic inflammation, DNA-damaging free radical levels and cellular aging, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, obesity and risks of heart disease, diabetes (no ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise, Tests You Should Take

Make Your Body Less Conducive To Cancer (Video)

Jul 23, 2014 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Watch Dr. Brian Lawenda's seminar on integrative oncology- a special type of cancer care that combines conventional cancer and medical treatments along with anticancer lifestyle counseling and evidence-informed complementary and alternative ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction

Dr Brian Lawenda’s Breast Cancer Talk (Video)

Jul 21, 2014 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Watch Dr. Brian Lawenda’s talk on a breast cancer. He discusses a variety of related topics, such as: Reducing your risk of developing breast cancer Introduction to the role of integrative oncology in breast cancer care Breast cancer ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction

Dr Lawenda Discusses Cancer Screening and Risks (Listen)

Jun 27, 2014 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Learn about some of the most common cancer screening recommendations and cancer risk factors in Dr. Brian Lawenda's, June 2014, 17-minute, interview on the Alan Stock Show (KDWN, AM 720). As always you'll also hear his plug on the importance of ...
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Dr Lawenda Discusses Integrative Oncology (Listen)

Jun 21, 2014 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Learn about Dr. Lawenda's integrative oncology practice. During this 60-minute interview he discusses how he combines state of the art cancer treatments, complementary therapies and anticancer lifestyle changes. Radio interview on the Healthy ...
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Exercise Duration And Intensity Matters

Jan 30, 2014 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

It's abundantly clear that if you want to reduce your risk of developing cancer exercise is important. Additionally, if you are a cancer survivor exercise has been shown in numerous studies to significantly lower your risk of cancer recurrences ...
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I Am One Of The Most Important Factors Driving Cancer Growth

Jan 3, 2014 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Chronic inflammation is one of the main driving factors that fuels cancer (and almost all chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, arthritis, etc.) Your job is to reduce the amount of chronic inflammation in your body. ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction

Lowering Cholesterol May Reduce Breast Cancer Growth

Nov 30, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Breast cancer is sneaky. A new study discovers a trick that breast cancers use to get around some of our best drugs. If you know about this trick you'll be able to take action to put a stop to it. The Background: Two-thirds of all breast cancers ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Supplements and Botanicals

Break up the day with activity to anti-cancerize your cells

Oct 29, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

We have known for a while that cancer survivors who get at least 150-minutes of moderate intensity exercise each week (i.e. 30-minutes per day, 5-days per week) have much lower rates of cancer recurrence and death than those who are less active. A ...
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Housework May Not Be Physical Enough

Oct 18, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Getting 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise is associated with lower risks of cancer development, growth and recurrence. Although any amount of exercise is more healthful than being sedentary, the intensity and duration of that ...
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Topics Covered: Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Defy Cancer with Exercise

Adrenal Exhaustion and Cancer: Is This Real?

Sep 15, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Medical school teaches nothing about adrenal exhaustion (also known as adrenal fatigue). Most conventionally trained physicians believe this not to be a real medical diagnosis. Instead, it is simply felt to be only in the mind of the patient with no ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Conventional Treatments, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs, Supplements and Botanicals, Tests You Should Take

How To Begin An Exercise Routine (For Cancer Patients And Survivors): Part IV

Aug 9, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

In this article (the fourth and final in our series on “How To Begin An Exercise Routine”) we discuss how to start exercising if you have physical limitations from  cancer or other health conditions. Authored By: Janette Powell (Physical ...
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How To Begin An Exercise Routine (For Cancer Patients And Survivors): Part III

Jul 26, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

The second article in our series presented some beginner approaches to walking, running, cycling and swimming. In this article (the third in our series on “How To Begin An Exercise Routine”) we are going to introduce you to some of the more ...
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How To Begin An Exercise Routine (For Cancer Patients And Survivors): Part II

Jul 5, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

This is the second article in our series on "How To Begin An Exercise Routine (for cancer patients and survivors.)" In this article, we present some beginner approaches to walking, running, cycling and swimming. We also discuss ways to use heart rate ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs

How To Begin An Exercise Routine (For Cancer Patients And Survivors): Part I

Jul 2, 2013 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

This is the first article in our series on "How To Begin An Exercise Routine (for cancer patients and survivors.)"  If you are currently living with cancer or had cancer in the past you may be facing a unique set of challenges or uncertainties due to ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs

What If Living An Anti-Cancer Lifestyle Only Reduces Cancer By 1%?

Oct 12, 2012 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Try this on for size. If there was a mere 1% reduction in the incidence of U.S. cancer mortality (e.g. lung, colon, breast, leukemia, pancreatic, brain), researchers estimate that this would save between $230-$308 BILLION dollars each year due to ...
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Topics Covered: A Diet that Defies Cancer, Avoid and Eliminate Toxins, Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction

Yoga for Cancer Recovery

Sep 18, 2012 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

I'm sure you've heard that Yoga, a 5,000+ year old practice, can help in your cancer recovery.  Yoga combines exercise (postures, called asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditation...a system that has been scientifically proven ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise, Defy Cancer with Stress Reduction, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs, Spirituality and Social Support

Foods to Fight Cancer and the “Five Golden Rules”

Aug 30, 2012 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Dr Richard Beliveau (author of one of my favorite books, Foods to Fight Cancer) spoke at the 2012 Union for International Cancer Control World Cancer Congress. Here are his key points Not all fruits and vegetables protect against cancer; ...
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Exercise and Cancer 101: Why You Should Just Do It!

Aug 12, 2012 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Why is exercise so important: Exercise reduces your risk of developing cancer. Exercise during and after cancer treatment may reduce your risk of cancer recurrence and progression. Exercise improves quality of life in cancer patients and ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise, Manage Side Effects Without Drugs

Dying from prostate or colorectal cancer is reduced by up to 61% with exercise!!

Jan 6, 2011 Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.

Harvard researchers (reporting in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, in January 2011) discovered that men with a diagnosis of prostate cancer who exercised at least 3-hours each week decreased their risk of dying from prostate cancer by 61% compared ...
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Topics Covered: Defy Cancer with Exercise

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