Exercise
Exercise and Cancer - Overview
You probably already know that regular physical activity reduces your risk of heart disease. What you may not know is that exercise has important cancer-related benefits as well. Exercise may reduce your risk of developing certain common types of cancer. In addition, if you’ve already been diagnosed with cancer, exercise can help you feel better during and after treatment.
The combination of regular physical activity with a healthy diet is likely to provide more health benefits than either behavior alone. A healthy diet and regular physical activity can also help you fight the weight gain that affects many cancer survivors.
The following articles address the importance of exercise before and after a cancer diagnosis. For more information about nutrition, go to Nutrition and Cancer.
- Reasons to Walk, Run, Ride, or Row
- Move Your Body, Move Your Spirit: Yoga and Cancer
- Pilates and Breast Cancer
- Exercise Tips
- Weighing the Risks: Obesity and Cancer
- Living Longer and Living Better: Exercise Provides Multiple Benefits to Cancer Survivors
- Moving Bodies, Changing Lives
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