Given the much interest among Goanet readers in my reporting on aspects of cancer, here is something more.:=)) There is new evidence that exercise improves cancer survival as reported in four new reports. Two studies were done at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston together with the Nurse's Health Study. From an abstract of the paper, the authors showed that "moderate exercise reduced women's risk of dying from breast cancer by up to 50%". Studies also looked at colon cancer. Larger randomized clinical trials are being planned by the National Cancer Institute and other cancer organizations.
Our Goanet "experts" may want to read the original papers in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (August issue) and elsewhere. Please direct all you critiques of the papers to the authors and the editors of the journals. Please spare us, the Goanet readers, from further aggravation - machem kit pit naka! Cancer victims and those who do not want to do things to help themselves, please hit the delete button and disregard this post. For those not into nit-picking, moderate exercise involves, "About 6+ hours a week of moderate walking". The walking also benefits the quality of life, post-treatment and helps people "who are not affected by cancer as well". To state the obvious, exercise is not supposed to replace proven cancer therapy, but to work with / as an adjunct to it. Thanks for allowing me to share this information with you. Regards, GL _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
