title: Lifestyle prescriptions for cancer survivors and their communities.
abstract: Current cancer care focuses on procuring the most up-to-date therapy to prevent cancer death. However, the majority of cancer survivors will not die from cancer but from cardiovascular disease.A cancer diagnosis presents a 'teachable moment' for lifestyle behavior change.Changes in key behavioral risk factors reduce cardiovascular risk; yet, this potential for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease among cancer survivors is often overlooked.Evidence now exists for both individual clinic-based approaches and complementary community-based strategies to induce successful behavior change.We propose a systematic re-alignment of clinical and research focus to complement cancer surveillance and adjuvant treatments with key patient-and community-based strategies to improve lifestyles in cancer survivors [added].
authors.affiliation: Center for Population Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lajous
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mozaffarian
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mozaffarian
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schrag
authors.forename: H-O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Adami
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical