The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan by Carolyn M. Kaelin (M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.), Francesca Coltrera, Josie Gardiner, and Joy Prouty is a highly detailed exercise guide for patients in all stages and treatments of breast cancer. It offers a series of increasingly intense workouts to improve muscle tone, balance, bone strength, and general well-being. The number of available options is stunning. Workouts are tailored for each type of surgery and nonsurgical treatment and every fitness level. Each exercise comes with a carefully detailed, yet comprehensible explanation and clear illustrations. The Fitness Plan emphasizes diet, rest, and stress reduction along with workouts.

The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan is the only breast cancer recovery program designed by a Harvard doctor and survivor and approved by the American Council on Exercise (ACE). It’s packed with information, well-laid out, and full of tips to help you cope during and after treatment. It even provides information that patients may not receive from their doctors regarding exercise, such as warm-ups after surgery. Research shows that regular exercise can reduce the chance of breast cancer recurrence, extend your life, and recover energy, strength, and flexibility diminished by cancer treatment. This book will help you feel strong again, regain control of your life, improve your flexibility and balance, rebuild your muscles, protect your bones, and enhance your appearance, vitality, and all-around health.

The Fitness Plan will not only help you get through breast cancer, but work on being fit for life. Among the thousands of cancer survivorship guides out there, this one stands out as a sound approach from a known expert in the field. Highly recommended for anyone who has breast cancer or knows someone who does.

Part of the Harvard Medical School Guides series on patient health.


Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Publish date: August 10, 2006
272 pages
ISBN-10:  0071465782
ISBN-13:  9780071465786