Cancer is hard. The cancer treatment is even more frightening and heart-breaking. After you have passed those hurdles, you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The modern medical science has made our lives better. But along with this, you must take control of your health to enrich your life. A healthy lifestyle after breast cancer surgery should include: Maintain a Healthy Weight – Diagnosis of cancer is accompanied with the stress of the treatment, its side effects and the changes it will bring in life. It becomes difficult for the survivor to keep a check on her weight. Maintain a healthy weight by consulting a nutritionist. It’s the single and the most vital thing to improve the quality of your life after breast cancer surgery.   Limit the Intake of Alcohol – Alcohol is a complicated issue especially for the survivors. Excessive alcohol consumption can cause risk in the near future. Therefore, try to avoid it as much as possible. Alcohol is also considered to be an unhealthy way to deal with the physical and emotional stress of cancer. Talk to your healthcare professional if you think you’ll face problem without consuming it.   Maintain a Healthy Diet – As a survivor, it becomes difficult to keep track of the diet intake. Maintain a healthy diet as it will keep your weight in check, give your body the essential vitamins and minerals along with the energy you need to stay active all throughout the day. Try eating as much fruits, vegetables, whole grains as you can. And, avoid eating red meat. Follow food safety steps to avoid food poisoning.   Quit Smoking – Quit smoking. It is the single best thing you can do as a breast cancer survivor. It will lower down the risk of developing breast cancer in the future. Along with it you will also prevent yourself from succumbing to heart diseases and stroke. Though it’s tough but not impossible.   Maintain a Workout Regime – It’s tough for a lot of people to do exercise on a daily basis. For the survivors who have recently undergone breast cancer surgery, it’s all the more difficult. The benefits of regular activity includes: it boosts your health, it improves your mood and helps to avoid cancer-related fatigue issues. Regular workout also reduces the chances of recurrence and cut down the risk of chronic diseases.   Cancer Care Specialities MENA at Al Zahra Hospital is the best breast cancer care center in Gulf, UAE, and Dubai. The team of board certified doctors always advise the aforementioned tips to all their patients to have a healthy life.

Will you undergo thyroid surgery soon? Are you worried about having a visible scar on your neck afterwards? Don’t worry! The old traditional method has been replaced by the new surgical technique – scarless thyroid surgery. It leaves no scar on the neck. In some cases, it might result in easier recovery after surgery. At Neuro Spinal Hospital, the surgical team of Cancer Care Specialities offers scarless thyroid surgery in UAE to patients with abnormal thyroid or parathyroid glands. The novel approach leaves no visible scar. How does it work? In the scarless thyroid surgery instead of making an incision in your neck, surgeons use this technique to access thyroid glands through a small cut made in your armpit. Using robotics arms, a monitor and a machine to control the arms, a surgeon performs the surgery. This helps the surgeon to get precise and clear magnification of the thyroid gland thereby reducing the risk of complications. Instead of two, only one incision is made This technique for scarless thyroid surgery in UAE is popular amongst the patients because the whole thyroid gland is removed through a single armpit incision. This is far better than making an incision in both armpits or a big scar over the neck. However, this procedure is technically very demanding but it makes a comfortable journey for the patient to recover. Benefits of the Scarless Thyroid Surgery The biggest advantage is that you won’t find any visible scars on the neck while allowing complete removal of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Magnification by the robotics allows clear visualization of important structures such as the nerves and the parathyroid glands. Just one incision and whole of the thyroid gland can be removed. Also, the scars made get healed over time. Traditional Surgery vs. Scarless Technique Although scarless thyroid surgery might sound appealing, but it isn’t for everyone. You should undergo scarless thyroid surgery only if: Your body weight is normal because this type of surgery can be performed on people who are overweight. You have small sized thyroid nodules without associated conditions, namely thyroiditis or Grave’s disease. Follow Up Care   Once the procedure is over, the patients stay at the hospital overnight so that the team can monitor recovery after surgery and anesthesia. The next day, if the patient does not suffer from any problems, they are discharged. Ideally, they are recommended to take rest for a day or two. But you can resume your work only after 2-3 weeks. Small stitches dissolve on their own after some time. Transforming Scarless Thyroid Surgery Care Now you know in detail about the scarless thyroid surgery, so contact our experienced surgeon for comprehensive care. Located in the heart of Dubai, Cancer Care Specialities MENA conducts scarless thyroid surgery in UAE by using the latest technology and information management protocols to improve the overall health outcomes.