Cancer Care Through Lifestyle Medicine: Insights by Sami Mansfield | LM2024 CardioSeeds Series

In this Episode #1 of the CardioSeeds ACLM’24 Series featuring members of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), Cardioseeds invited Sami Mansfield, Secretary of the Cancer Member Interest Group of ACLM, to borrow her expertise on how Engaging Lifestyle Medicine can Help Cancer Patients improve their quality of life and survivorship.
What is the significance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle when undergoing cancer treatments?
Is there evidence they improve survival rates and quality of life?
Do you know what research is needed in the future?
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Sami Mansfield is an entrepreneur and the visionary founder behind Cancer Wellness for Life, an organization dedicated to developing, implementing, and optimizing exercise oncology and lifestyle medicine programs and resources.
With a focus on empowering cancer patients and clinicians, Sami's consulting efforts extend throughout cancer centers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical companies, non-profits, and advocacy organizations.
She helped author the ASCO Guidelines on Exercise, Nutrition, and Weight Management during active treatment and the Exercise Recommendation for People with Bone Metastases: Expert Consensus for Health Care Providers and Exercise Professionals.
Sami created a fully virtual program for cancer patients, My Lifestyle Shift, incorporating the six pillars of lifestyle medicine into a tool for anyone to learn how to make these changes.
Sami Mansfield's social media links:
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