chemotherapy

Exercise during chemotherapy might be the hardest ‘ask’ in the Moving Through Cancer program. 

There are plenty of people who would ask why we would ask someone going through chemotherapy to exercise.  The answer is that we have documented evidence that exercise will help with symptoms during chemotherapy, and emerging evidence that exercise during chemotherapy will improve the ability to complete chemotherapy as originally prescribed, which could have a survival benefit.

There are 5 aspects to the Chemotherapy program. 

Log

Eat

Sleep

Move

Lift

If you want to read some of the science behind exercise during cancer treatment, try these sources:

https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/moving-through-cancer/

scroll to the bottom for the links to 5 papers that we think will convince you of the value of exercise before, during, and after cancer treatment.

Also see:

Effects of aerobic and resistance exercise in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy: A multicenter randomized controlled trial. Courneya et al. 2007  

Effect of low-intensity physical activity and moderate-to high-intensity physical exercise during adjuvant chemotherapy on physical fitness, fatigue, and chemotherapy completion rates: Results of the PACES Randomized Clinical Trial.  Van Waart et al. 2015