For weight control and good health – including cancer prevention – you likely know that physical activity is a good thing. What is less well known is how physical activity can help cancer survivors. But increasingly, it appears that it does.
One of the latest studies showing physical activities’ benefits among survivors focuses on prostate cancer.
The study found that men who walked briskly for three hours per week after their prostate cancer diagnoses had a lower risk of cancer progression.
It was published in Cancer Research, and you can read the abstract here.
Earlier this year, this same group of researchers found that activity after diagnosis reduced disease-related mortality in men with a certain type of prostate cancer. This new study focused on the effect of physical activity after diagnosis on early indicators of disease progression, such as a rise in PSA blood levels, along with treatment type, recurrence, and metastasis.