How Do I Improve My Condition If I've Been Diagnosed with Colon Cancer?

How Do I Improve My Condition If I've Been Diagnosed with Colon Cancer? (0:59)

Colon Cancer treatment takes priority, but staying active and eating health after treatment is important. In this video, Daniel Labow, MD, an oncology surgeon at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, recommends good lifestyle habits after cancer.

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[MUSIC] The first thing if you're diagnosed with that is to obviously get the appropriate consultations and see the appropriate doctors. To improve your situation once you already have the cancer, of course treating the cancer takes priority but staying active, balanced diet, all the things that go into healthy living, pre-cancer diagnosis also go into living post-cancer diagnosis and can help people get though treatments.

There's lots of data on exercise while you're getting treatment and tolerance of chemotherapy, certainly tolerance of surgery, you wanna be in as good shape as possible. So all those important lifestyle choices that people make pre-cancer and hopefully to prevent it or decrease the chance are also important post-treatment.

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