Physical activity helps to smooth out the effects of chemotherapy

People who have overcome cancer, and even those whose treatment is not finished yet , you need to move more , as it was not hard. A year of chemotherapy weakens the muscles of the patient so as the body accumulates so much fat as about ten years of normal aging.
According to published guidelines , the former with cancer need to practice as much as healthy people - about 2.5 hours per week. As said Dr. Julia Rowland of the National Cancer Institute, requires no previous chemotherapy nothing extraordinary. " Walking the dogs , play a little golf ," - she advises .


More and more facts indicate that physical activity helps to relieve cancer-related fatigue and prevents the loss of fitness that can be observed in the patient long after the end of therapy . Furthermore, among the 12 million Americans who cured cancer, there has been this trend : the more physically active people reduces the risk of recurrence.
Doctor Wendy Vanefrid Denmark , the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently conducted a study involving 641 women who survived breast cancer who are overweight and have found that a little bit of weight training at home and a healthy diet help slow the loss of fitness.
For cured cancer begin to develop special exercise program. American College of Sports Medicine akredytovuye trainers specializing in former cancer patients. However , those who begin a more intensive classes, and those are some health exercises can cause harm should discuss physical therapy with their oncologist , says Dr. Kathryn Schmitz , who led the development of recommendations.