Muscle mass and strength training are critically important in the context of a cancer diagnosis, affecting the trajectory of illness and recovery from immobilization.

“um muscle mass and strength training are turning out to be critically important yeah that's really not something that at least you know in the past decade or so or more was really talked about at least within the context of why it's important to be fit um with a cancer diagnosis right usually you think about aerobic exercise and the stress of aerobic exercise and of course there's all these mechanisms that occur but um it is really interesting to think about how important having that muscle Reserve is if you are going to get diagnosed because I mean it really does affect you know it it's almost it affects the trajectory of almost any kind of illness not just cancer I mean a respiratory illness a surgery anything that's going to have you immobilized for a period of time because you're you're recovering or um you know anything like that”

“the idea of lean muscle mass skeletal muscle mass being extremely important for getting through these treatments predicting recurrence predicting survival strong associations with physical functioning and quality of life”

“there is some research looking at um exercise and strength training seems to have modest benefits”

“the muscle mass in cancer is critical cancer can become a wasting disease this phenomenon called CIA where You' get muscle wasting especially once you get Advanced or metastatic cancer but now there's a lot of research showing that low muscle mass is really the critical thing driving risk of recurrence and death from cancer”

“it would be you have to be incorporating regular resistance training strength training into your your your workout routine because you want to have you want to basically build up that muscle Reserve that you have more to pull from if a terrible thing like a cancer diagnosis occurs”