Exercise and Cancer Survivorship

It is widely known—and repeatedly proven—that exercise goes a long way toward preventing and treating chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Less frequently studied are the effects of exercise on cancer—from prevention to survivorship—though this is now recently changing. A Correlation between Exercise and Survivorship Among breast cancer survivors, physical activity after diagnosis has consistently been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer-specific mortality. A recent meta-analysis…