New study suggests exercise coaching should be a new standard of care for treating colon cancer patients, with benefits rivalling some drugs
A three-year exercise programme improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept the disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed.
With the benefits of the programme rivalling some drugs, experts said cancer centres and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors.
Until then, patients can increase their physical activity after treatment, knowing they are doing their part to prevent cancer from coming back.
“It’s an extremely exciting study,” said Dr Jeffrey Meyerhardt of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, in the United States, who was not involved in the research.
