For decades, many doctors who treat people for cancer have cautioned patients to take it slow during the course of treatment. Now, the Los Angeles Times reports, several reputable studies suggest that exercise is just as beneficial to cancer patients as it is for the cancer-free. The paper reports that Kathryn Schmitz, an associate professor of epidemiology and
biostatistics at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine, headed up an American
College of Sports Medicine panel that devised the exercise
recommendations based on a number of published studies looking at the
safety and effectiveness of physical activity during and after cancer
therapy. The panel focused on studies about exercise for people with
breast, prostate, hematologic, colon and gynecologic cancers. The Times reports that the panel noted that although most forms of moderate exercise, such as
strength training, yoga and swimming, are good for cancer patients,
exercise regimens should be tailored to accommodate fitness levels,
diagnoses and safety requirements. Schmitz will present the guidelines Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of
Clinical Oncology in Chicago.
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Now we can exercise cancer to death! Why didn’t I think of that?? What are these people smoking?
During past and current cancer treatments including chemotherapy and radiation, I maintained my training routine as much as physically possible. Not only was I was not only stronger and thereby better able to deal with the physical effects of the treatments but I was also better able to deal with the mental/psychological aspects of the same.
It is difficult to have the get and go to get and go when in the midst of such however, that expenditure of energy seems to have given me more energy and the mental work out helped me to realize that I could keep going.
It sure seems to beat just laying down and dying.
I guess that one would not know this unless they have been through it.
Yeah! I ran a 10K in the middle of chemo. Helped a lot.
I had a malignant brain tumor in 1989. I never did stop running or doing my yard work. It was very tiring during radiation-I only had surgery and radiation-no chemo. But I am here now. The mental aspect was most gratifying. Gene