So sports Miracle Drug for Cancer Patients

Although still difficult to cure, but the sport can be a wonder drug for patients to beat cancer and even reduce the risk of disease coming back.

Research shows that exercise can reduce the risk of death from cancer and minimize side effects of treatment.

Macmillan Cancer Support research results found that breast cancer patients who exercise 150 minutes a week had a 40 percent lower chance for the risk of death and disease recurrence, compared to cancer patients that move less than 1 hour per week.

Colon cancer patients may also reduce the risk of recurrence of 50 percent with six hours of physical activity per week, whereas patients with prostate cancer have 30 percent lower risk of dying from the disease if doing exercise 3 hours a week.

The research received support from the UK Department of Health recommends that all patients receiving cancer treatment must be told to do at least 2.5 hours (150 minutes) of physical exercise each week.

But an alarming, only about 40 percent of physicians and oncology nurses are aware of these recommendations and more than half of cancer patients not told about the benefits of exercise for disease.

"It's important when physical activity services are available and 'recipes' for all patients who would be shocked if they knew how much the benefits of physical activity on health and long-term recovery," said Ciaran Devane, CEO of Macmillan, as reported by Mirror.co.uk, Monday (08/08/2011).

According to him, exercise for cancer patients do not need to be too heavy. Gardening, a walk in the morning, brisk walking or swimming can be a useful exercise for cancer patients.

In addition to reducing the risk of disease recurrence and death from cancer, do sports during the treatment phase also has positive effects on mood, anxiety, depression, fatigue, impaired mobility and change in weight