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Episode: Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows
Description: A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept the disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed.
With the benefits rivaling some drugs, experts said cancer centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Until then, patients can increase their physical activity after treatment, knowing they are doing their part to prevent cancer from coming back.
βItβs an extremely exciting study,β said Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who wasnβt involved in the research. It's the first randomized controlled trial to show a reductio...