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Cancer patients can cut the risk of recurrence by half if they exercise, a number of studies have found.
Despite the results the study also showed that many patients are reluctant to make efforts to keep fit and consider their daily activities sufficient exercise.
The study is part of a series of investigations looking at exercise habits among cancer patients conducted by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
‘As doctors, we often tell patients that exercise is important, but to this point, nobody had studied what patients know about exercise, how they feel about it and what tends to get in the way,’ says lead author Dr Andrea Cheville.
For patients who have gone through breast or colon cancer treatment, regular exercise has been found to reduce recurrence of the disease by up to 50 per cent.
The study, published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, found that patients who exercised regularly before their diagnosis were more likely to keep up their routines afterwards.
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