Nutrition
DIET, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND HEALTHY LIVING (ACS)
This American Cancer Society webpage provides comprehensive guidelines, tips, and resources on diet, physical activity, and maintaining a healthy weight to help reduce cancer risk and promote overall healthy living.
Healthy 10 Challenge (AICR)
The Healthy 10 Challenge is a free, 10-week interactive program created by the American Institute for Cancer Research to help individuals build sustainable healthy habits focused on improved nutrition and increased physical activity.
Healthy Eating (AICR)
This American Institute for Cancer Research webpage provides detailed guidance on healthy eating—including Food Facts, recipes, and information on limiting red meat and alcohol—to help individuals reduce their cancer risk and maintain a healthy weight.
Nutrition and Physical ACTIVITY DURING AND AFTER CANCER TREATMENT (ACS)
This American Cancer Society page uses a question-and-answer format to address common inquiries from cancer survivors regarding the role of nutrition and physical activity, including advice on topics like alcohol, fat, supplements, and sugar, both during and after treatment.
Nutrition DURING CANCER TREATMENT (NCI)
This National Cancer Institute webpage provides comprehensive information on the importance of good nutrition during cancer treatment, detailing the effects of various therapies on eating, food safety guidelines, ways to manage nutritional side effects, and available support options like enteral and parenteral nutrition.
eating well After Treatment (acs)
This American Cancer Society webpage offers guidance and specific tips for cancer survivors on how to transition to healthy eating habits, manage lingering side effects, and optimize nutrition to regain strength and energy after treatment ends.
tobacco Cessation
Cigarrete Smoking: Health Risks and How To Quit
This National Cancer Institute webpage provides detailed, evidence-based information on the health risks of cigarette smoking and effective cessation methods, including counseling, drug treatments, and smoking reduction strategies.
SmokeFree Tools & Tips
Smokefree.gov is a comprehensive resource that offers evidence-based tools, apps, texting programs, and expert support to help people at any stage of the quitting process become and remain smokefree.
Become an EX
The EX Program is an evidence-based digital platform that provides personalized resources, text messaging, and an online community to help individuals quit smoking, vaping, or using any tobacco product.
Freedom From Smoking
The American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking program is an evidence-based tobacco cessation service offered in group, online, and self-help formats to help individuals quit all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vaping.
Quit Net
This Smokefree.gov webpage provides an interactive, five-step tool for individuals to build a personalized quit plan for cigarettes or vapes, including setting a quit date, identifying triggers, selecting distraction strategies, and connecting with expert support resources.
Quit Assist
QuitAssist is a free informational resource that connects adult tobacco users who have decided to quit with expert public health quitting information, telephone quitlines (1-800-QUIT-NOW), and live online counseling from the National Cancer Institute.
Healthy Living
Physical Activity/Wellness
Be Physically Active (AICR)
This American Institute for Cancer Research webpage provides the recommendations on physical activity, information on how exercise lowers cancer risk and offers practical tips for incorporating movement and sitting less into daily life.
Cancer Health Check (AICR)
The AICR Cancer Health Check is an interactive, seven-step online quiz that assesses personal lifestyle choices related to diet, physical activity, alcohol, and smoking to provide users with personalized feedback on how to reduce their cancer risk.
CANCER FIT FOR SURVIVORS
CancerFit for Survivors is a virtual fitness platform offering live and on-demand exercise classes led by certified exercise oncology trainers to help cancer survivors rebuild strength, energy, and confidence from home.
Exercise (CancerCare)
This CancerCare topic page includes resources, publications, workshops, and advice from oncology social workers on the role of exercise in coping with and recovering from cancer, including ways to find modified exercise programs.
physical activity and the person with cancer (acs)
This American Cancer Society page discusses the benefits of physical activity before, during, and after cancer treatment, providing general recommendations and practical tips to help patients safely incorporate exercise to improve energy, quality of life, and cope with side effects.
LIVESTRONG PROGRAM AT THE YMCA
The LIVESTRONG at the YMCA program is a free or low-cost 12-week small-group exercise and support program designed specifically to help adult cancer survivors rebuild strength, endurance, and quality of life after treatment.
