{"id":16028,"date":"2017-11-03T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16028"},"modified":"2018-06-28T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T04:33:46","slug":"study-says-exercise-benefit-advanced-breast-cancer-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16028","title":{"rendered":"Study says exercise could benefit advanced breast cancer patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Breast cancer has become one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women. Though efficient treatments are capable to offer some relief from the disease; common treatment side-effects like body pain and headache significantly disturb the lives of patients. A new study shows that a planned exercise regimen, including aerobic and physical training can eliminate problem among women; thereby raising the quality of their life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The study included 15 women, aged 34-68 years, who had been receiving treatment for advanced breast cancer and were not doing any regular exercise. During the study, 8 women were enrolled in an exercise program for 12 weeks, while the rest 7 were given normal care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When compared with normal-care patients; women, who exercised daily, experienced improved heart condition, psychological health as well as reduced fatigue and body pain. \u201cThis is a small group of patients, but the results suggest that this is something worth exploring for a much larger group of women\u201d commented study author, Eduardo Oliveira, professor of exercise physiology at the University of Porto at Portugal University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">She is hopeful about the study results that might allow the inclusion of exercise in care programs designed for the well-being of advanced stage breast cancer patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliveira is also concerned about the unawareness of exercise benefits and stated, \u201cUnfortunately, there is a lack of awareness among health professionals about the therapeutic effects of exercise, and that needs to change. We also need more sports scientists studying, working and researching in this area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast cancer has become one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women. Though efficient treatments are capable to offer some relief from the disease; common treatment side-effects like body pain and headache significantly disturb the lives of patients. A new study shows that a planned exercise regimen, including aerobic and physical training can eliminate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-health-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}