Prostate cancer patients who love exercise live longer

Researchers reported that a study has shown that exercise can benefit cancer patients. Their study aimed to study the impact of physical exercise on prostate cancer prognosis. The results showed that exercise can reduce all-cause mortality and mortality caused by cancer itself in prostate cancer patients.

Compared with prostate cancer patients who walked or cycled less than 20 minutes a day, patients who walked or cycled 20 minutes or more a day had a 30 percent lower overall mortality rate and a 39 percent lower prostate cancer-specific mortality rate.
Compared with patients who exercised for more than 1 hour, those who exercised for more than 1 hour had a 26% lower overall mortality rate and a 32% lower prostate cancer-specific mortality rate.
The total time spent walking, cycling, exercising and doing housework was then calculated. The researchers found that patients with a total MET of 5 hours or more per day had a 37% lower overall mortality rate and a 22% lower prostate cancer-specific mortality rate than those with less than 5 hours.