Dr. Oz Show Today

lovesanimals

For those of you who watch the Dr. Oz Show, he's scheduled to cover risk factors associated with ovarian and pancreatic cancers on today's show.

Kelly

 

NoTimeForCancer

Did you watch?

I work and wouldn't have the chance to see this.  Do you know what he said?  I think I can guess, but they need to talk about gyn cancers more!!! 

lovesanimals

NoTimeForCancer said:

Did you watch?

I work and wouldn't have the chance to see this.  Do you know what he said?  I think I can guess, but they need to talk about gyn cancers more!!! 

Yes, I taped it and just watched it

He said a lot of things we're already familiar with but that's okay because, as you indicated, we need to keep talking about ovarian cancer and other women's cancers below the belt! 

Ovarian Cancer Risk Factors:

1. Family history of ovarian or breast cancer

2. Over the age of 40

3. Never been pregnant

4. Being overweight by 25 or more pounds

5. Eating too much dairy (which I hadn't heard before);  according to Dr. Oz, limit dairy to one serving per day

Pancreatic Cancer Risk Factors:

1. Over the age of 55

2. Smoker

3. Obese

4. Family history = two or more family members with pancreatic or ovarian cancer

5. Race - being African American increases the risk

6. Having type-2 diabetes

According to Dr. Oz, one big way of controlling the risk of pancreatic cancer is to control packaged meats.

More information can be obtained from the Dr. Oz website: http://www.doctoroz.com/

-Kelly

 

NoTimeForCancer

lovesanimals said:

Yes, I taped it and just watched it

He said a lot of things we're already familiar with but that's okay because, as you indicated, we need to keep talking about ovarian cancer and other women's cancers below the belt! 

Ovarian Cancer Risk Factors:

1. Family history of ovarian or breast cancer

2. Over the age of 40

3. Never been pregnant

4. Being overweight by 25 or more pounds

5. Eating too much dairy (which I hadn't heard before);  according to Dr. Oz, limit dairy to one serving per day

Pancreatic Cancer Risk Factors:

1. Over the age of 55

2. Smoker

3. Obese

4. Family history = two or more family members with pancreatic or ovarian cancer

5. Race - being African American increases the risk

6. Having type-2 diabetes

According to Dr. Oz, one big way of controlling the risk of pancreatic cancer is to control packaged meats.

More information can be obtained from the Dr. Oz website: http://www.doctoroz.com/

-Kelly

 

Thank you for the report!

Very thorough, thank you! 

The Ovarian risks (as I thought) are also very similar to the Uterine risks.  I guess I just expect someone to tell us "THIS - THIS is what you need to do not to get  any of these cancers" but that would be breaking news if anyone could make that kind of statement.