WHY BOTHER?...

There is a growing evidence base indicating that physical activity has potential value at all stages of the cancer care journey (1)

Going through chemotherapy, radiotherapy or any form of cancer treatment is hard and the effects are ongoing. Everyone’s experience will be different - different lengths of treatment, different side effects and different outcomes.

Exercise may be the last thing that you want to do but there is growing evidence that incorporating physical activity into and after cancer treatment can bring about a number of benefits including:

Boosting energy levels
Increasing physical function
Improving weight/BMI
Improving mental well being (psychosocial function)
Improving sleep quality and structure

Added together these can make a significant difference to overall quality of life (2).

In Australia there is now formal guidance recommending exercise as part of cancer treatment, for all cancer patients.

Whilst activity boosting overall likelihood of survival is difficult to prove at this time, it is one of the variables you as a patient can control and does offer many benefits (both physical and mental), so really the question should be

Why wouldn’t you bother?...

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References
(1) https://www.macmillan.org.uk/_images/the-importance-physical-activity-for-people-living-with-and-beyond-cancer_tcm9-290123.pdf
(2) https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/exercise-as-part-of-cancer-treatment-2018061314035

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WHY BOTHER?...

References(1) https://www.macmillan.org.uk/_images/the-importance-physical-activity-for-people-living-with-and-beyond-cancer_tcm9-290123.pdf(2) https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/exercise-as-part-of-cancer-treatment-2018061314035

References
(1) https://www.macmillan.org.uk/_images/the-importance-physical-activity-for-people-living-with-and-beyond-cancer_tcm9-290123.pdf
(2) https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/exercise-as-part-of-cancer-treatment-2018061314035