While there has been no hard evidence that exercise can improve survival in patients with cancer, it can boost patients' mood and how they feel.
PUBLISHED July 03, 2018
San Francisco-based Heather Millar is a breast cancer survivor. A journalist for more than 25 years, she has covered health care and science for many national magazines and websites.
It’s foggy and cool in San Francisco where I live – the curl up and take a nap kind of weather. I feel mostly aches and pains today. But soon, I’m going to push back from my desk, and go to my weekly yoga class.
Exercise may be the last thing on your mind as a cancer patient or survivor, but recently, 25 leading cancer organizations around the globe recommended that exercise be prescribed to all cancer patients as part of their treatment regimen.
You’ve no doubt heard that there’s epidemiological evidence that exercise may protect against cancer recurrence and mortality. But the recent recommendation in the prestigious journal The Lancet is careful to point out that no evidence to date that proves exercise can improve cancer survival.
Exercise may be the last thing on your mind as a cancer patient or survivor, but recently, 25 leading cancer organizations around the globe recommended that exercise be prescribed to all cancer patients as part of their treatment regimen.
You’ve no doubt heard that there’s epidemiological evidence that exercise may protect against cancer recurrence and mortality. But the recent recommendation in the prestigious journal The Lancet is careful to point out that no evidence to date that proves exercise can improve cancer survival.
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