Session: Diet and nutrition

Speaker: Nagi Kumar, PhD

This 90-minute concurrent session will focus on information about diet and nutrition
and cancer risk for cancer survivors and previvors with a BRCA mutation or hereditary
cancer in the family. Dr. Kumar will discuss:

• current knowledge about nutrition as it relates to general and specific cancer risk and cancer survival
• research on nutrition, supplementation, and other factors as it relates to cancer risk in BRCA carriers
• what we do and don’t know about supplements—their benefits, risks, limitations, and regulations
• other benefits of a healthy diet, exercise, good nutrition for cancer survivors and people who are very high-risk
  

This session is appropriate for:

• people with a BRCA mutation or hereditary cancer in the family
• cancer survivors and previvors
• spouses, partners, and significant others of people with a BRCA mutation or hereditary
  cancer in the family
• patient advocates, support group facilitators, and people who work with survivors, people
  with a BRCA mutation, and people with hereditary cancer in the family
• health care providers who provide care to survivors, people with a BRCA mutation, and
  people with hereditary cancer in the family
• social workers/mental health care professionals who treat survivors, people
  with a BRCA mutation, and people with hereditary cancer in the family

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