A Cancer Patient Definitely Has Risks With Fasting!

• Cancer

So, you want to know or you know someone who wants to know the risks associated with fasting when you have an active form of cancer? Well first off let us say that rasting as an alternative to traditional interventions and treatments has no proven or established benefit and therefore, we advise against it. But for those who feel they may still want to explore the spiritual and emotional aspects of fasting we will discuss the topic in greater detail.

There are so many types of cancer in that it is nearly impossible to talk about them together as a single category. However, in an attempt to summarize the disease in one sentence, cancer is a disease when individual cells mutate, divide in an uncontrolled manner and disrupt normal function by starving surrounding tissue of nutrients or physically pressing and interfering with normal bodily functions. The main treatments for cancer are chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, which are both difficult and stressful in a physical, mental and emotional sense.

Because of a persons need to adapt to the stress experienced during any cancer treatment, deciding to fast may interfere with treatment goals of your physician. It can also interfere with chemotherapy medications or alter the healing and recovery that must take place after either surgery, radiation of chemotherapy. Because nausea is a common side effect of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, cancer patients must often concentrate on good nourishment. Neglecting your added nutritional demands during any recovery process is not advisable under any circumstances.