Exercise can potentially worsen certain tumors or exacerbate symptoms in cancer patients. — Whalespan
Exercise can potentially worsen certain tumors or exacerbate symptoms in cancer patients.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
✕NOTSUPPORTED
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“the myth is that exercise improves everything exercise makes everything better improves all outcomes we've seen in the exercise oncology field uh we didn't get a chance to discuss it but there's a few preclinical animal Mo models showing that exercise makes some tumors grow more quickly so it's not this Panacea for every single tumor in general it slows the growth and spread but we've seen a few Publications showing the mightet exercise the tumors grow more quickly we've also seen a few studies including um a couple of my own showing exercise exacerbating symptoms in cancer patients so in in one of our studies in rectal cancer patients it looks like the exercise intervention made skin irritation from radiation worse exercise making skin irritation worse it looks like it made diarrhea worse in in these patients hand foot syndrome which is sort of a a healing and tenderness in the feet and hands you can imagine walking on a treadmill or lifting weights and in a couple studies it's shown it's made fatigue worse
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