It's a fact that a terrible truth may bring inactiveness in a lively individual. Being detected with cancer is enough to keep you attached to your bed. Words of truth from the doctor may steal away all your motion and activities. And the follow-ups- the passage of hot chemicals through your veins and visiting the radiation room may transform you into a living statue.
So the very thought of exercise while living with cancer may disappear from your mind. But don't we know that exercise offers us benefits like an all-natural therapy? And this is again reinforced by the Duke Cancer Institute researchers, who have claimed that exercise can make brain cancer patients to live longer in comparison to those who lead an inactive life.
Researchers are of the opinion that this finding not only tries to prove the effect of exercises on the overall symptoms, but it also intends to justify the impact on the patients' well-being and survival. The finding seems to support the results of another recent study which claimed that exercise influences the experiences of patients during and after the therapies in a positive way.
The research included 243 individuals with terminal brain malignancies at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke. The median life expectancy in this type of brain cancer is less than six months.
Some patients who performed brisk exercises on a regular basis reported a longer survival time - a median 21.84 months in comparison to the 13.03 months recorded as the survival periods for the inactive patients. The regular, brisk workouts may be considered equivalent to 30 minutes of daily walk for five days a week.
It's all about feeling good and exercise is definitely a "feel good" activity which can help sufferers stay positive even while battling terminal illness like cancer. Researchers are now interested to find out if a combination of exercise and cancer therapies can work out to prevent relapse or progression apart from minimizing the side effects of the harsh treatments.
