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Recommendation
Healthy lifestyle advice – General
Advise all patients with breast cancer that a healthy lifestyle is associated with a lower risk of recurrence and improved survival. Discuss how a healthy lifestyle includes achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, limiting alcohol intake, cessation of smoking and undertaking regular physical activity.
Advise people with breast cancer that a healthy lifestyle is associated with a lower risk of recurrence, and that this should include: achieving and maintaining a healthy weight (see the NICE guidelines on preventing excess weight gain and obesity); limiting alcohol intake to below 5 units per week and; regular physical activity (see the NICE guideline on physical activity for adults)
Useful Links
- Lifestyle risk factors and the primary prevention of Cancer 2015 (Cancer Australia position statement)
- Australia’s Physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines and the Australian 24-hour movement guidelines
- The Australian Dietary Guidelines
- Australian Healthy Weight Guide
- Australian Department of Health information on ‘Alcohol’
How this guidance was developed
This recommendation was adapted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation is based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to September 2017 and used wording (‘Advise’) indicative of a strong recommendation by the source guideline authors. The source recommendation was adapted by removal of some of the detail and instead providing links to relevant Australian guidelines for this detail.
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Healthy lifestyle advice – General
Recommendation
Advise all patients with breast cancer that a healthy lifestyle is associated with a lower risk of recurrence and improved survival. Discuss how a healthy lifestyle includes achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, limiting alcohol intake, cessation of smoking and undertaking regular physical activity.
Principles in action
Patient-centred care
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Supportive care
Useful Links
This recommendation was adapted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation is based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to September 2017 and used wording (‘Advise’) indicative of a strong recommendation by the source guideline authors. The source recommendation was adapted by removal of some of the detail and instead providing links to relevant Australian guidelines for this detail.
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