EXERCISE more effective at Reducing Cancer Reoccurance than Medication.

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If you are recovering or recovered from Cancer and you don't want to have a relapse, seems like EXERCISE might be the best way to avoid getting a second occurrence of cancer!

Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning after treatment, trial finds

First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing

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Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning after treatment, trial finds​

First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing​

Andrew Gregory​

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After five years, patients in an exercise regime had a 28% lower risk of recurrent or new cancers. Photograph: amriphoto/Getty Images​

Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third, stop tumours coming back and is even more effective than drugs, according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide.​

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For decades, doctors have recommended adopting a healthy lifestyle to lower the risk of developing cancer. But until now there has been little evidence of the impact it could have after diagnosis, with little support for incorporating exercise into patients’ routines.​

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Now a world-first trial involving patients from the US, UK, Australia, France, Canada and Israel has found that a structured exercise regime after treatment can dramatically reduce the risk of dying, the disease returning or a new cancer developing.​

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The results were presented in Chicago at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Asco) annual meeting, the world’s largest cancer conference, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.​

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For the first time in medical history, there was clear evidence that exercise was even better at preventing cancer recurrence and death than many of the drugs currently prescribed to patients, one of the world’s top cancer doctors said.​

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Dr Julie Gralow, the chief medical officer of Asco, who was not involved in the decade-long study, said the quality of its findings was the “highest level of evidence” and would lead to “a major shift in understanding the importance of encouraging physical activity during and after treatment”.​

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Patients who began a structured exercise regime with the help of a personal trainer or health coach after they completed treatment had a 37% lower risk of death and a 28% lower risk of recurrent or new cancers developing, compared with patients who received only health advice, the trial found.​

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Asked to put the effect of exercise on cancer patients’ outcomes into context, Gralow said: “We titled [the session it was presented in] As Good as a Drug. I would have retitled it Better than a Drug, because you don’t have all the side-effects.”​

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“It’s the same magnitude of benefit of many drugs that get approved for this kind of magnitude of benefit – 28% decreased risk of occurrence, 37% decreased risk of death. Drugs get approved for less than that, and they’re expensive and they’re toxic.” . . .​

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[FrancSevin]

So does diet. People who exercise regularly tend to be careful about what, and how much, they put in their bodies.
They also consume less alcohol and avoid smoking.
And avoid highly processed foods.
It is a lifestyle of discipline.