Drinking

SandiaBuddy
SandiaBuddy Member Posts: 1,381 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1

The abstract of an article that will be published soon is out.  Of interest were that only 9% of colorectal survivors complied with the relatively mild diet and exercise suggestions of the American Cancer Society ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21146/pdf ).  But they gained a 42% increase in overall survival and a 31% increase in disease free survival.  From the abstract (it would be better to read the whole article when it is available), people who drank 1-2 drinks increased these statistics to 51% overall survival ad 42% disease free survival.  Once again, it would be best to read the whole article when it is published instead of jumping to conclusions, but the abstract is still interesting.

http://abstracts.asco.org/199/AbstView_199_193741.html

 

Also, the abstract of the tree nut study is out.  It reports a 42% increase in disease free survival and 43% increase in overall survival for people who eat at least two servings of tree nuts per week.

http://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2017.35.15_suppl.3517

 

 

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  • JanJan63
    JanJan63 Member Posts: 2,478 Member
    #2
    Thank you for sharing that!

    Thank you for sharing that! Very interesting! I remember my onc not long ago suggesting I drink wine. I took it as a bit of a joke but maybe there's something to it. I often wonder, though, how much things like drinking or smoking pot or enjoying life in other ways and doing things that relax us affects our frame of mind and that affects our survival rate. Exercise is supposed to help and it can increase dopamines or something like that which improves our mood. Unless your exercising your butt off, anyway. And I wonder how just not stressing about it helps. I always get stressed before a test or treatment or anything like that but generally I don't really think about it at all. Not in a deep, emotional way, anyways. But then how does that explain people who don;t even know they have cancer getting worse? They're not stressing about it. But they could be stressing about other things... Ugh, it's so hard to quantify anything when it comes to cancer.

    Jan

  • mozart13
    mozart13 Member Posts: 118
    #3
    I like that theory!

    I will adopt that one, 1-2 drinks, not bad idea, life will look better.

  • beaumontdave
    beaumontdave Member Posts: 1,289 Member
    #4
    Happy to hear any good news

    Happy to hear any good news about imbibing, since I really didn't want to give it all the way up. Whether I survived longer or not, thats what it would feel like, "surviving."...............................................Dave

  • ThomasH
    ThomasH Member Posts: 106 Member
    edited June 2017 #5
    I'm convinced stress had a big impact on my cancer

    Lets face it, stress is just bad for you.

    I'm absolutely positive that stress was a key factor that led to my cancer, so one of the BIG things I'm doing to fight mine is to get rid of the stress in my life. I think the occasional drink, and the socializing that goes with it, really help a lot in the relaxing and de-stressing side of things. (drinking alone would just be depressing for me)

    Likewise, even moderate excersize can burn off all the excess adrenaline that worrying about test results and the future can bring. Adrenaline is pure "Fight or flight", so it stresses the body greatly when it is just sitting there. Makes a lot of sense to me that excersise has a solid impact on cancer.

    I haven't heard of the tree nuts thing at all, so something new for me to research.

    Thanks so much for posting that SandiaBuddy!

    Thomas

  • danker
    danker Member Posts: 1,276 Member
    #6
    I love it!

    Being an Irishman, I tend to have a drink or two every day.  And i have been NED ever since 2010. LOL

  • JanJan63
    JanJan63 Member Posts: 2,478 Member
    #7
    danker said:

    I love it!

    Being an Irishman, I tend to have a drink or two every day.  And i have been NED ever since 2010. LOL

    You've found the fountain of

    You've found the fountain of life! I'm Irish, too! Yay for us! Actually, Irish/Scottish as far as I know but my daughter got me a DNA kit and we're waiting for the results.

    Hugs!

    Jan

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