Caution on cancer exercise link

Yes and no.

"Prostate cancer patients have been told to carry on exercising despite research in mice which appears to suggest it speeds the growth of tumours.

The US study found tumours expanded twice as fast in mice given exercise wheels compared to those without.

The researchers said improved blood flow to the tumour was a possible cause, but encouraged patients to remain active...

The results of the mouse experiment, presented at a US cancer conference, could actually help reveal ways to improve prostate cancer treatments, said researchers from Duke University Medical Center...

However, he said that exercise could be a way to improve treatment by delivering drugs more effectively to prostate tumours, which can generally have a poor blood supply."

No less believable than other bad research in the domain of sick care, because the level of our ignorance is so profound and what we know is so little.

A study, so far, of little value.

There is one point that does have value.

"Sedentary lifestyles raised the risk of other serious diseases, they said."

It is unquestionable that the development of certain bad diseases, e.g., heart disease, stroke, and some cancers are much more common in the fat.

But that does not equate with "sedentary lifestyle."

That equates with more Calories in than out.

Further highlighting that what we "know" beyond fat and health quickly becomes speculative.