Being operated on for cancer is a frightening experience. Not everyone survives surgery and even after a tumor is removed, cancer can recur. But Dutch researchers have discovered a pre-operative survival tool you can use to improve your odds.
The health-boosting medicine you can embrace is exercise.
According to the scientists in the Netherlands, moderate exercise that improves your physical fitness before a cancer surgery improves your chances of surviving the surgery even if you are of advanced years: “Promising evidence from systematic reviews suggests that exercise training can improve cardiopulmonary fitness in the short time available for surgery and reduce risk of postoperative complications.”In their study, the researchers examined the benefits of exercise during the month before cancer patients underwent radical cystectomy (removal of the bladder). Even though the people in the study had only about four weeks to improve their fitness, even that brief period of exercise helped.
“Our feasibility study looking at the role of preoperative exercise based upon individual levels of baseline fitness appears to be well tolerated and safe in a primarily elderly population awaiting cystectomy,” says researcher Srijit Banerjee on the findings. “Even in a short time period there appears to be an improvement in the fitness level in this population.”
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