Cancer Patients Can Benefit from Exercise
JULY 16, 2009Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is quoted in a St. Louis Post Dispatch article about the benefits of exercise for cancer patients both during and after treatment. Though exercise can't necessarily ward off breast or other cancers, Schmitz notes that regular fitness will help patients withstand treatment better. "There are fewer side effects, recovery is better, they withstand the effects of hormone therapy, radiation and chemotherapy better. That is for certain. We have data on that," she says.
