Research: More Exercise Means Less Prostate Cancer

The more a man exercises, the less likely he is to have prostate cancer, according to research conducted at Duke University Medical Center. A Duke Med Center press release explains that an examination of 190 men who underwent prostate biopsy at the Durham Veterans Affairs
Medical Center revealed that men who regularly engaged in
moderate activity — anything equivalent to walking at a moderate pace
for several hours per week — were significantly less likely to be
diagnosed with prostate cancer, and if they were, they were less likely
to have aggressive disease, defined as a tumor with a Gleason score
equal to or greater than 7. After adjusting for age, race, weight, PSA score, family history of the
disease, and other variables, investigators found that men who reported
more hours per week of exercise were significantly less likely to have
cancer on biopsy.”As the amount of exercise increased, the risk of cancer decreased,”
says Jodi Antonelli, MD, a urology resident at Duke and the lead author
of the study. Among men who were found to have cancer, even exercising
as little as one hour per week of easy walking was associated with a
lower risk of high-grade disease.

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