How to arrange the diet for breast cancer patients Breast cancer patients generally have the same diet as normal people, except that they need to avoid eating during treatment or due to changes in their condition. The following dietary recommendations can be used by patients and their families for reference. (1) Diet should cooperate with treatment: Breast cancer patients should try to eat before and after surgery to supplement nutrition. Rich nutrition can promote the body to go through the surgery smoothly, promote the healing of incision, strengthen the body, recover health as soon as possible and facilitate the subsequent treatment. During radiotherapy and chemotherapy, due to the adverse effects of treatment, the patient’s sense of taste and appetite are reduced, which can produce nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal reactions, at this time, the patient should realize that this is only a temporary degree of pain brought to themselves, and consciously overcome these side effects with optimism and tenacity, and insist on eating some easily digestible, highly nutritious food in moderation. To ensure that the body can accept and complete various treatment plans as scheduled. (2) Diet should be moderate and not excessive: Over nutrition and obesity have adverse effects on breast cancer patients. Therefore, during the long-term life of breast cancer patients after treatment, they should adhere to the principle of moderate but not excessive diet while ensuring nutritional needs to avoid excessive weight gain and obesity. (3) Rational choice of food: It is beneficial to choose appropriate foods that are beneficial to the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. These foods include seafood such as seaweed, sea cucumber, beans, vegetables, fruits, etc., and should be supplemented with necessary vitamins, electrolytes, minerals and trace elements. Of course, these foods can be adopted from person to person, from time to time and from place to place, and there is no need to force consistency. Some people say that a woman is not a perfect woman if she does not experience conception and childbirth, but for women with breast cancer, there is no need to be overly concerned about this so-called “perfection”. Breast cancer patients should not get pregnant either during or after surgery. The reason is that after pregnancy, the endocrine changes in the mother’s body, the hormone level in the body changes, especially the estrogen level increases significantly, which can easily promote the development of latent cancer cells and cause tumor deterioration, recurrence or metastasis. If the breast cancer is estrogen-dependent, it will be more sensitive and will accelerate the deterioration of the disease. Some breast cancer patients mistakenly believe that if they receive treatment, the cancer cells will be completely eliminated, but in fact, this is not true. Theoretically, all invasive cancers except in situ cancers have the possibility of spreading (micrometastasis). After systematic treatment, although these cells have been removed to the maximum extent, there may still be a small number of cancer cells remaining in the body and in a dormant state. If the number of cancer cells is small enough, the body’s own immune function can inhibit their growth, thus allowing the patient to survive disease-free for a long time. However, the large amount of estrogen secreted during pregnancy or due to the reaction of pregnancy can stimulate the growth and division of these remaining tumor cells. Therefore, even if the post-operative outcome is good, once pregnancy occurs, it may still lead to recurrence or metastasis of cancer cells and pose a fatal risk. Therefore, doctors generally will not agree to risk pregnancy in breast cancer patients, even those who have completed all treatments; if they are pregnant, they should terminate the pregnancy as soon as possible. How to rehabilitate the affected upper limb after breast cancer surgery After breast cancer surgery, the patient will have a certain degree of physical changes, which requires the patient to have full ideological understanding and preparation, to cooperate with the doctor with strong will and perseverance, and to perform functional exercises of the limb in a planned and step-by-step manner to promote blood and lymphatic reflux of the limb, reduce swelling of the limb and restore normal function as soon as possible. Generally, on the first two days after surgery, you can start to do forearm and elbow flexion and extension exercises and palm grip movements, 10 times each time, about 5-6 times a day. On the third day after surgery, you can try to help the operated upper limb with the healthy one, and gradually lift the affected limb to the level of the shoulder, 3-4 times each time, about 3-5 times a day (about one month after surgery to achieve the above standard is qualified), then continue the functional exercise of the affected limb until it exceeds the head, 3-4 times a day, so that the affected limb palm over the top of the head, touch the opposite ear, 2-3 times each time, 3-4 times a day. 3 times a day, 3-4 times a day, and do various exercises such as lifting, rotation, and abduction of the affected upper limb with the shoulder joint as the axis. When exercising after surgery, breast cancer patients should exercise gradually according to their actual condition, such as their disease, age, physical strength and incision healing, etc. They should not be too hasty and should not refrain from exercising after surgery.