Exercise isn’t a standalone treatment. But as an adjunct therapy and preventative lever for most cancer types, it’s incredibly effective.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Exercise isn’t a standalone treatment. But as an adjunct therapy and preventative lever for most cancer types, it’s incredibly effective.
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some of those studies show that yes even the amount of exercise you were doing before diagnosis might improve your outcomes after diagnosis independent of what you do after diagnosis some of it is that the exercise might alter the cancer itself so even if it doesn't prevent the cancer it might be a less aggressive cancer or genetically different type of cancer or it might be more of an early stage cancer so some of it's related um to changing the cancer itself but even if exercise doesn't prevent the cancer it may delay the cancer