Physical exercises help to defeat cancer
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People who have won cancer can reduce the risk of relapse by half if they live an active lifestyle, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Despite the obvious benefits of doing physical exercises, many people consider their daily activities to be a sufficient norm of physical activity.
"As physicians, we recommend physical exercise to our patients, but no one has studied the effect of physical activity on their health, well-being and monitoring of the results," says Dr. Andrea Chevilli.
In patients who had breast cancer or colon cancer and regularly exercised, there was a tendency to reduce the risk of cancer return by approximately 50%.
It turned out that most often physically active are those people who were engaged and before they were diagnosed. They continued to lead the old active way of life and did not slow down.
According to Dr. Chevilli, many patients do not know that sedentary lifestyle not only makes the body vulnerable to various diseases, including cancer, but also prevents the recovery of the body after a serious illness.
"Most of the participants in the study sincerely believed that working in the garden or at home can have the same positive effect as a set of physical exercises. But in fact, such work requires minimal energy expenditure and can not produce the expected result, "the doctor says.
Scientists managed to find out that women with overweight are most at risk of developing or relapsing breast cancer, despite adequate treatment of the disease. The risk of returning the disease in this case is increased by 30%, and the possibility of a lethal outcome is increased by 50%. Such results experts associate with hormonal disorders and frequent inflammatory process.
It was also noted that the most serious thing about advice about the benefits of maintaining a good physical shape, the patients listened to the doctors-oncologists. However, few of the specialists who know this information, discussed the need for these sessions with patients.
Scientists hope that further research will help to organize work with cancer patients at the stage of recovery, and it will become clear how to create optimally favorable conditions for physical activity of such patients, because fatigue, lack of vital energy and extinction of interest in life become satellites of cancer diseases.
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