How to Treat and Cure Breast Cancer: Alternatives and Traditional Options | Dr. Kristi Funk
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Current breast cancer treatments are explored by leading expert and breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk.
Dr. Funk also outlines effective alternatives to common treatment plans such as chemotherapy and radiation, and which patients may be good candidates for the alternatives.
Plus, she explains the best way to reach maximal reduction of the risk of cancer.
“We have so much more control over this disease than people think through diet and lifestyle,” she says.
Dr. Funk joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast as the Let’s Beat Breast Cancer series continues.
Topics Discussed
- How close are we to curing breast cancer?
- Treatment has improved
- Understanding the different types of breast cancer
- Minimizing risk of breast cancer recurrence
- Determining best course of treatment . . . extremely individualized
- Pros and cons of current treatments
- Seven tools to treat breast cancer
- What to do if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer
- When to change the course of treatment
— — UPCOMING EVENTS — —
Exam Room LIVE with the Esselstyn Family
Tickets: https://bit.ly/ERLiveinDC23
Who: Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn with Ann, Rip, and Jane. Plus, Dr. Neal Barnard and Chuck Carroll
When: Nov. 7, 2023
Where: National Press Club in Washington, DC
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Hampton Roads VegFest
Who: Chuck Carroll
When: Oct. 28, 2023
Where: Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, VA
Website: http://www.hamptonroadsvegfest.com
— — SHOW LINKS — —
Let's Beat Breast Cancer
Website: http://www.letsbeatbreastcancer.org
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Dr. Kristi Funk
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Website: https://pinklotus.com
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Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | Let's take a second to hear from our friends, the Esselston family, |
| 0:03.5 | here now, Dr Caldwell Esselston, along with Rip, Anne and Jane, |
| 0:08.4 | with a special invitation for you. |
| 0:11.4 | Please join us for a night to remember in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:16.0 | We are honored to be receiving the Mid-Stuba Ambassador Award for a Better World |
| 0:20.9 | at the National Press Club on November 7th. |
| 0:23.0 | We're going to celebrate by joining Dr. Neil Barnard, Chuck Carroll, |
| 0:27.0 | and all of our friends at PCRM for a live recording of the examroom podcast. And we would love for you to be there as well so |
| 0:35.9 | come on out and let's have some fun and reflect on this incredible journey |
| 0:40.8 | who who |
| 0:42.0 | coming up on the exam room journey. |
| 0:45.0 | Coming up on the exam room. Each case is a little bit different. |
| 0:47.0 | We have 21 subtypes of breast cancer. |
| 0:50.0 | Some cancers are biologically, |
| 0:52.0 | like a little old lady, a couch potato, going nowhere fast. |
| 0:56.5 | So we need to recognize which ones those are and be wary of over treatments, right? |
| 1:03.7 | We don't need to tap in a nail using like that big sledgehammer |
| 1:09.0 | that tries to make the thing thing go up at the carnival. |
| 1:12.2 | So when we think about how to treat and cure breast cancer, |
| 1:15.0 | there are seven pools in our tool bag. |
| 1:19.0 | Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, anti-estrogen therapy, |
| 1:25.0 | biologic targeted agents, and immunotherapy. |
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