Excercise boosts bowel cancer survival

In this article, it talks about recent studies that show that people who excercise regularly prior to diagnosis of bowel cancer, had much higher survival rates compared to those who did not: "The chance of dying for regular exercisers was halved if they had stage two or three tumours - moderately advanced cancer which had not spread to other parts of the body, Dr Haydon said." Doctors were amazed by the magnitude of the survival benefit for bowel cancer patients.

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