Sport is health. It has been, it is and it will be. That doctors in different countries increasingly recommend exercising as a ‘medicine’ is an unequivocal sign that the vast majority have neglected it.
In the face of a heat wave it is not easy, but if we think at a general level, we must have on the horizon that practicing exercise, however small it may be, must be something fundamental in our life. How to drink water, how to go for a walk, how to be in contact with nature.
Physical exercise: the best tool to protect health
According to him doctor Javier Cortés, Head of the Breast Cancer Unit of IOB Institute of Oncology Madrid and Barcelona, and world leader in cancer research, “ehe physical exercise in cancer patients has multiple benefits, such as increased patient functionality, improved quality of life and hours of sleep, and decreased anxiety. We have also verified how physical exercise improves tolerance to treatments for cancer patients and reduces chronic fatigue. In some tumor types such as breast or colon cancer, the evidence suggests that it could even decrease the risk of relapse. “
Along these lines, the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) has produced a guidance document on exercise applied to cancer patients y la American College for Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the World Health Organization (WHO) They recommend at least 150 minutes a week of moderate physical exercise and at least 2 sessions of toning exercise that includes large muscle groups.
More exercise, less cancer risk
Asked about it, the doctor Javier Román, Medical Director of the IOB Institute of Oncology Madrid, explains that “a study recently published by the prestigious medical journal British Medical Journal (BMJ) in which about 480,000 Americans participated, shows that Those people who perform aerobic and strength physical exercise on a regular basis, have a 40% decrease in the risk of death from any cause, including a decreased risk of dying from cancer. The evidence is even greater regarding the decreased risk of breast, colon, endometrial or liver cancer”.
If physical exercise is highly recommended in the general population, it is extremely important in the patient who has or has had cancer. Unfortunately, one of the barriers that patients encounter is the lack of specialization.
Alfonso Cortés, Medical Oncologist at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital and co-founder of ONCARE, unique cwellness and recovery for cancer patients led by medical oncologists, it is clear; “Physical exercise is beneficial but must be supervised by highly qualified personnel” and adds that “we should recommend more physical exercise. If it were a drug, all oncologists would prescribe it. ”
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