A prospective study done in Sweden suggests that higher cardiorespiratory fitness is linked to lower risk of death from colon, lung, and prostate cancers. The researchers included 177,709 participants; mean age was 42, and mean body mass index (BMI) was 26. Read here to learn more about this study.
Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, said that while the study’s findings were not new, it “had a larger number of men enrolled and followed for an average of almost 10 years, and therefore had greater ability to determine associations with cancer risk.”