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...addition, it helps moderate blood pressure in people with hypertension, can significantly relieve depression and anxiety and appears to help maintain cognitive function in old age. Studies show that physical activity may also help prevent cancers of the breast and prostate, probably by influencing hormone levels, and of the colon, probably by keeping wastes moving along. Exercise seems to be so beneficial to cancer patients that oncologists have begun advising them to do their best to get moving. A study released last week showed that breast-cancer patients who walked three to five hours a week or did an equivalent...
EXERCISE TO SLOW COLON CANCER...
Previous studies have shown that exercise reduces the risk of developing colon cancer. But research presented to the American Society of Clinical Oncology last week showed that exercise--a brisk hour's walk six times a week--can also reduce the risk of recurrence and death for those who already have the disease...
Ironically, the trial that exposed the heart risks of COX-2 inhibitors was a cancer experiment, designed to test whether Vioxx or Celebrex could prevent the recurrence of colon cancer. It was halted before any conclusion could be reached. The situation was even more frustrating for patients in a second trial. There, scientists did indeed find a lower recurrence of colon tumors in patients taking Vioxx. "There was a reduction in adenoma recurrence," notes the study's lead author, Dr. Robert Bresalier of MD Anderson Cancer Center. "How that balances with the potential risk remains to be seen...
...Battling colon cancer two years ago, Washington State's senate majority leader James West, who was at the time also a mayoral candidate, granted an interview to the Spokane Spokesman-Review in which he confided that his illness had brought him closer to his maker. He had come to believe that his supporters' prayers had helped drive back the malignancy. West joked that he imagined God, inundated with requests for his recovery, was barking, "Get me an angel. I need to know who this Jim West...