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“This study shows that you don’t have to engage in high-impact, vigorous activities to improve your quality of life after a prostate cancer diagnosis,” Phillips, a kinesiologist and assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern, said in a university news release.

“Since many prostate cancer survivors might find vigorous activities hard to stick with, the good news is that simply focusing on walking more may be enough to make them feel better,” she added.

Tewari agreed. “Exercise, before and after prostate cancer treatment has the potential to speed recovery, mitigate complications, allow for optimal handling of medication, and impact long-term survival,” he said. “In my practice, we have also seen facilitation of earlier recovery of sexual function.”

Dr. Manish Vira directs the fellowship program in urologic oncology at The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology in New Hyde Park, N.Y. He said the new study “highlights the value of cancer survivorship programs which focus on increasing physical activity and exercise.”

So, he added, “it is important to emphasize to patients that even modest, low-impact activity can have very positive effects not only on overall health but also on patients’ perception of their quality of life.”

Exercise has many other positive effects, Phillips noted.

“Cancer survivors have a higher risk of other conditions, such as cardiovascular disease,” she said. “Walking may also potentially increase survival and impact their quality of life by preventing the onset of those other conditions.”

 

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Walking: Medicine For Prostate Cancer Survivors  was originally published on blackdoctor.org

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