{"id":8912,"date":"2025-10-20T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/?p=8912"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:20:22","slug":"breast-cancer-the-benefits-of-dance-for-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/blog\/uncategorized\/breast-cancer-the-benefits-of-dance-for-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer &amp; The Benefits of Dance For Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breast Cancer Awareness Month does more than simply alert us that this cruel killer of a disease remains untamed.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds us not only of the lives lost but the ones saved, the survivors. Whether in remission or cured, those who have suffered from breast cancer can continue to have a number of physical and emotional\/mental tests ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors may feel less attractive physically and detached from their bodies after treatment. They realize the fight they\u2019ve been in. They struggle to reacclimate.<\/p>\n<p>There are any number of therapies to treat these conditions, and plenty that can be done individually. Dance has been shown to be an excellent mood elevator and a way to chase the ghosts of this illness. When a person\u2019s spirits are down, dance can become another path toward wellness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chemotherapy by itself is not enough. The surgery is not enough. You have to take care of the whole body. You have to take care of the mind, too,\u201d says oncologist Dr. Kim Kruczek, who takes lessons at the Chicago West Loop Fred Astaire Dance Studio and dances to help bust stress.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Interview with FADS Student, Dr. Kim Kruczek\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_IlmAzJPMfE?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, found that patients undergoing cancer treatment, as well as their partners, benefited from ballroom dancing. Ballroom dancing also increases socialization for women who may have felt isolated during the various stages of their treatment and recovery.\u00a0 It helps survivors get back into the swing of an active lifestyle and can even improve their intimacy with their partner.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 277,000 newly discovered cases of invasive breast cancer will have been found by 2020\u2019s end, and more than 42,000 women in the United States will die of this disease. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, except for skin cancers, but there are more than 3.5 million survivors in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we welcome breast cancer survivors \u2013 and everyone who\u2019s been touched by this disease \u2013 friends, family members, co-workers, caregivers, healthcare providers etc. \u2013 to discover the healing power of dance.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the perfect time to honor a survivor by scheduling a class, either for her, or with her!\u00a0 Simply visit, call, or check out fredastaire.com\/sarasota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast Cancer Awareness Month does more than simply alert us that this cruel killer of a disease remains untamed. It reminds us not only of the lives lost but the ones saved, the survivors. Whether in remission or cured, those who have suffered from breast cancer can continue to have a number of physical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}