Bed Rest or Exercise? How Exercising Can Help Fight Cancer

Rest and recovery are almost always treated synonymously. Many cancer patients choose to spend their days in bed in the hope of fast recovery. The rationale is the more rest cancer patients get, the more energy they will preserve. Hence, they will have more strength for their next rounds of treatment.

Generally, this presumption is not far from the truth. Indeed, proper rest is necessary to let the body heal and recover. However, this doesn’t mean that cancer patients must spend their full days without moving. Recent developments in studies of cancer treatments suggest that aside from sleep and relaxation, leaving …read more