Well, hey, folks!  This is a big week!  It is the anniversary of my first podcast a year ago.  So exciting!  I can’t believe I have done 48 episodes – at the start, I couldn’t imagine doing the first four, and now I am done 12 times that!  I know many of you feel like we are old friends at this point, but for the people who are new, I want to tell you how this all came to be.  As most of you know, I am a radiation oncologist, and I have been in practice for more than 20 years.  About 5 years ago, I was struggling in my life.  After having years of fertility treatments, and then ultimately, 4 kids, I was slowly gaining weight.  I thought this was from not exercising and really loving food.  I was fighting with my kids, and always irritated with my spouse.  I was feeling burnt out at work.  I blamed most of this on being too busy and feeling sluggish from my weight.  I knew I needed a change, but wasn’t sure what.  I thought if I could just fix my weight, everything would be better.  I j...

Hi, and welcome back to episode 10. This week we are going to step back from the weight loss, and into another of the survivorship podcasts. What that means is that this week I predominately have my medical cap on, and there is going to be data, and it may be challenging to understand all of it. If you have questions, reach out through the Best Life After Cancer MD facebook page. This topic for this week is exercise. Many adults may consider exercise as a means to lose weight, or perhaps reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease, but they often do not realize that recreational physical activity (RPA) is an important tool in both the prevention of cancer and reduction in recurrence. This topic is near and dear to my heart for survivors. I feel really passionately that as a medical community, we may not be making this data clear to each and every one of our cancer survivors. One of the reasons I think some physicians don’t focus on it is because as a doctor, it is something we have no...