Anticancer Fitness Articles & Research
Sedentary cancer survivors, with low levels of physical activity, see far worse survival
In a study published in JAMA Oncology, Cancer survivors with prolonged daily sitting and little to no physical activity had a far higher chance of death, whether from their cancer or other causes, a c…
Tens of thousands of cancer deaths could be prevented each year by 45 minutes of daily walking
More than 46,000 cancer cases in the United States might be prevented each year if almost all of us walked for about 45 minutes a day, according to an eye-opening new study of inactivity, exercise and…
Exercise lowers risk of at least 13 types of cancer
A large-scale epidemiological study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that In addition to associations with lower risk of heart-disease and mortality, leisure-time physical activity is also …
Mouse study shows cancer-fighting immune cells are powerfully affected by exercise
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that the immune cells in animals that exercised fought off tumors noticeably better than animals that had received immune cells from inactive…
Dramatically lower risk of death from breast cancer in physically active women before and after diagnosis
In a study by Irwin et al, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers found that women who did the equivalent of at least two to three hours of brisk walking each week in the year befo…
Dana Farber Cancer Institute: Exercise shown to lower risk of cancer recurrence
Dana Farber Cancer Institute put together this fact sheet indicating that exercise can lower the risk of recurrence of different cancers.
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