Sami Mansfield: Elevating Quality of Life for Those Facing Lung Cancer
Sami (Papacek) Mansfield, Founder of Cancer Wellness for Life, shared a post on LinkedIn:
”Lifestyle Medicine: Elevating Quality of Life for Those Facing Lung Cancer.
2024 has brought remarkable progress in lung cancer treatments, boosting survival rates and offering hope to many such as with the CROWN data presented at ASCO and ESMO this past year!
But as healthcare professionals, caregivers, and advocates, we need to ask: How can we ensure these extra days, months, or years come with a good quality of life?
Lifestyle strategies are not only powerful, but they’re simple and accessible. Grounded in six pillars—nutrition, exercise, stress management, sleep, social connection, and avoiding harmful habits —lifestyle medicine goes beyond treating the disease to address daily challenges like breathlessness, fatigue, and mental well-being.
Check out 5 of my favorite tips you can use today!
Let’s bring quality of life to the forefront of lung cancer care. Together, we can empower those on this journey to not only survive but truly live with vitality and joy.”
Sami (Papacek) Mansfield is the founder of Cancer Wellness for Life. She’s been a certified cancer exercise specialist since 2003 and has dedicated her career to implementing evidence-based lifestyle education, resources and tools into cancer care for both the patients and the providers. She is also a Chair of Cancer Member Interest Group, at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Breast Cancer Taskforce Co-Chair at Colorado Cancer Coalition.
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