Research in the fast-growing field of exercise oncology has left little doubt that staying physically active improves symptoms and side effects during cancer treatment.
, while improving quality of life and physical function. That is, the ability to go about a normal day.
There are also intriguing clues that exercise helps prevent lung, blood, head and neck, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, too. And exercising appears to reduce the risk of dying in people diagnosed with breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers, in the range of 40% to 50%. Those kinds of numbers and that amount of research are hard to ignore.
, a single bout of exercise produces a flood of defender immune cells, says Michael Gustafson, PhD, scientific director of the Nyberg Human Cellular Therapy Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic’s Arizona campus. “I don’t believe that exercise alone can cure you of cancer, but I do believe that it can be very helpful,” he says.
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