Cancer cells do not grow in a vacuum.

     Update time.....Dean's second chemotherapy went fine.  He feels so much better than his first go-round with chemotherapy a year ago.  Whether it is the fasting he is experimenting with, or the exercise he is trying to maintain, it is going pretty well.  He discovered, during week 2, that he can't fast and run, so he is walking more on fasting days.  Also, he learned that it is miserably hard to travel for business after chemo, and exercise, and try fasting.  Hopefully this is his last business trip for a few months.

     My bad....I haven't been doing my plank-a-days every day so have to start my streak of doing them for an entire year all over again.  Today will be day one.
                                           

     I have been keeping up with the jogging, however, but wish I was doing more.  My race looms just 11 weeks away.  At some point I have to really increase my long runs.   Hopefully, when the weather warms up.......spring cannot come too soon, for me.

     M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is finally going to start a clinical trial this summer to explore whether improving patients' diets and nutrition, levels of physical activity, stress management and social engagement can help them avoid a cancer recurrence and increase survival.  They will follow 120 breast cancer patients.  A control group will receive the standard care without the lifestyle interventions.  Both groups will be monitored for immune function, endocrine function, insulin and glucose metabolism and more.  Cancer cells do not grow in a vacuum.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician but by the sick man himself.  He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breaths, or sleeps.     Georg Groddeck, "The Book of the It" 1923