Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Over 1,000 randomized controlled trials robustly demonstrate that physical activity significantly benefits individuals with cancer and those in remission.
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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.
Over 1,000 randomized controlled trials robustly demonstrate that physical activity significantly benefits individuals with cancer and those in remission.
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the opinion of the oncologist the oncologist is absolutely crucial you know if they if the oncologist says that that patient should be exercising or think about exercising they take that very seriously
oncologists will recommend for patients things that are evidencebased and one of I think the real strength of the exercise oncology field is we've subjective exercise to the same rigorous research that they would subject their drugs to so we do randomized controlled trials which are sort of the gold standard research methodology with large sample sizes showing these benefits for their patients and then we publish them in the top cancer journals that the oncologists read