Woman Claims To Be Beating Braest Cancer Via Low Fat Diet..

Vicky Sewart, pictured in her jewellery shop in Plymouth, opted to treat her condition with a health regime involving exercise and special foods.

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A breast cancer patient has told how she refused to take the powerful drugs she was offered after her operation - and chose to depend on a spicy low fat diet instead.

Vicky Sewart, 44, was worried about possible side-effects of the medicine and launched herself into a health regime of exercise and specially chosen foods, including turmeric, which she claims 'makes cancer cells commit suicide'

After undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, Miss Sewart, said her diet was a vital part of her recovery from the disease.

Her experience is now part of an academic study into how lifestyles can affect the body's response to cancer.

After she was diagnosed Miss Sewart, did her own research into which foods might have a positive impact on her recovery.

And following an operation to remove a breast and lymph node four years ago, she told doctors she would not be taking Tamoxifen during remission but would be using her diet as an anti-cancer 'drug' instead.

She said: 'It's very unusual for breast cancer patients not to take the drug.

'When I told the doctors I didn't want to take it, they just advised me to keep oestrogen out of my body, which is basically what the drug does.'

Miss Sewart said: 'The doctors absolutely will not say that the diet is going to do anything to help the cancer in any way, other than to say a healthy diet is going to help in the fight against any disease. 

'This was four years ago and I think attitudes are changing a bit now so that these ideas are running alongside the more usual treatments.

'I believe absolutely enormously that my diet has assisted my recovery.' Explaining her decision not to take Tamoxifen, she said: 'It was the worry of the drugs and the side effects, I didn't want to have to worry about it, I wanted to be free.' 

Recovering: A picture of Vicky in Antigua, 2008. Concerned about the side-effects of medical drug Tamoxifen Miss Sewart, 44, designed a vegan, diary free diet which included a range of superfoods from frozen berries to curry spices.

Turmeric, a spice used when making curry dishes.

The jewellery designer and gallery owner started out her health regime with a mostly organic vegan diet, cutting out all dairy products, adding plenty of 'super-foods', and taking moderate exercise.
She said: 'Fresh fruit, vegetables and juices are great, and frozen berries are fantastic as a superfood.

Turmeric, a spice used when making curry dishes
'Turmeric kind of makes cancer cells commit suicide and ginger and garlic are great to cook with.'
The national research study is looking at how lifestyle can help prevent the recurrence of breast cancer after surgery.

The largest of its kind in the world, it involves 56 hospitals around the UK and 3,400 patients who have had the disease.

For the past four years, Miss Sewart has provided blood and urine samples and filled in regular questionnaires about her well-being, diet and lifestyle as part of the national research.

The full results of the study will be published next year.

Miss Sewart, from Plymouth, Devon, is hoping to mark her five-year remission next summer and is due to get married later this year.

She added of her experience of cancer: 'People can die, or come back from it and enjoy life. You've just got to be thankful you're still around.

'Make the most of life, everything will always be alright in the end.'

Dr Steve Kelly, who specialises in breast cancer at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, said: 'Breast cancer deaths have been going down steadily for over 20 years thanks to surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

 

Vicky Sweart used both frozen berries like strawberries and ginger root in her diet which she claims has helped recovery from breast cancer.

'But there are three things patients can do to help themselves, it doesn't guarantee survival, but it does help.
'The first is to exercise for thirty minutes three days a week, the second is to not gain any weight and the third is to reduce fat intake.

'These things help to reduce the chance of cancer coming back. For this patient, four years on now, it is still early days.'
He added: 'My job is not to make people have Tamoxifen, but advise people of the risks and benefits.
Treatment comes down to a patient, and height, weight and exercise levels are helpful in making a decision.'

 

Culled from The Dail Mail UK.

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