Exercise

Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of exercise to improve the quality of life of people with cancer. But Dr. Fred Saad, urologist-oncologist and researcher at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), goes further. He believes that physical exercise has a direct effect on cancer, as effective as drugs, for treating patients with prostate cancer, even in advanced stages of the disease. Read the article.

According to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, men who get regular exercise have a slightly lower risk for developing initial prostate cancer. After a prostate cancer diagnosis, patients who maintain a routine of vigorous activity just three hours each week have a much better survival rate. For men who have prostate cancer, working out with these three exercises is especially important. 1. Kegel exercises 2. Weight training 3. Walking Read the article.

Brisk walking for about three hours a week is enough to help prostate cancer survivors reduce damaging side effects of their treatment, according to a promising study. “Non-vigorous walking for three hours per week seems to improve the fatigue, depression and body weight issues that affect many men post-treatment,” said Siobhan Phillips, lead author from the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Read the article.

Participating in supervised group exercise programs not only improves prostate cancer patients’ physical and mental well-being but also provides them with much-needed emotional and social support, according to the results of a recent study. Read the article.

Breast and prostate cancer patients could cut their risk of dying by walking just one mile a day, it has been suggested. Read the article.

This issue of the Digital Examiner from PCCN-Calgary discusses the role of exercise in prostate cancer. Read it here.

Power walking could reduce the risk of aggressive prostate cancer: Men who can walk three miles an hour have a lower risk *  Men who walked fast before getting cancer have tumours with regularly shaped blood vessels – these are less aggressive and easier to treat *  Men who walked at three miles per hour before diagnosis have 8% more regularly shaped blood vessels than those who walked at 1.5 miles per hour *  The researchers think exercise could be equally beneficial for people with other cancers Read the article.