Exercise more effective than medicine to lower 37% cancer deaths, 28% repetition, shows new international trial | Mint

A groundbreaking international trial involving patients from the US, UK, Australia, France, Canada and Israel has discovered that the NA repetition or the development of a new cancer can significantly reduce the risk of cancer deaths, or reduce the development of a new cancer and are even more effective than drugs, the Guardian reported. Patients who have started a structured exercise program with the support of a personal trainer or health coach after the treatment has been completed have a 37% lower risk of death and a 28% reduced risk of recurrence of cancer or new cancers, compared to those who received only health advice, found the trial. The findings were unveiled in Chicago during the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, the world’s largest cancer conference, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. For the first time in medical history, there is clear evidence that exercise regularly surpasses many medicines that are prescribed to prevent cancer repetition and death, according to one of the world’s leading cancer specialists. In the trial, researchers entered from 2009 to 2023 889 colon cancer patients, with the majority (90%) diagnosed with stage three disease. Patients were randomly assigned to participate in a structured exercise program (445) or to just get a healthy lifestyle booklet (444). Patients in the exercise group met twice a month with a personal trainer for coaching and supervision of workouts, which later reduced to once a month and continued this routine for a total of three years. The practice group received coaching and support to help them achieve specific exercise goals. Their weekly target was the equivalent of three to four walks that last 45 to 60 minutes each, although patients were free to choose their preferred activities, for example, some chose for kayaking or skiing. After five years, those in the exercise group showed a 28% lower risk of cancer repetition or new cancers compared to the control group. After eight years, they also had a 37% lower risk of death than patients who received only the healthy lifestyle booklet. ASCO chief medical officer speaks dr. Julie Gralow, chief medical officer of ASCO and not involved in the decade -long study, described the quality of the findings as the ‘highest level of evidence’ and said they would “bring about a major shift to achieve the importance of promoting physical activity during and after treatment.” ‘We have titled [the session it was presented in] As good as a drug. I would have had it better than a drug because you don’t have all the side effects. It is the same extent of many medicines approved for this kind of benefit – 28% has reduced the risk of appearance, 37% has reduced the risk of death. Medicine is approved for less than it, and it is expensive and they are toxic. When I started three decades ago, it was still the era where we would be gentle and said: Do not overdo yourself when you are to chemo. We reversed it. I would say [exercise is] Better than a drug, “the Guardian quoted her.