Another advantage of maintaining an exercise regimen has been discovered by researchers. A recent study found that exercising before getting cancer was linked to slowed tumour growth and reduced the consequences of wasting syndrome, or cachexia, a cancer complication. The research was published in the 'Experimental Biology' publication.

Cachexia is a metabolic wasting illness that affects up to 80% of patients with advanced cancer and is responsible for one-third of all cancer deaths. Cachexia causes significant progressive muscle wasting, heart structure and function declines, and a lower overall quality of life.

Louisa Tichy, a graduate student in Traci Parry's lab at the University of North Carolina at Greenboro, said, "Most exercise, especially aerobic activity, is easily accessible and affordable."

Exercise has been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory properties and may help to reduce the progression of cancer cachexia while also protecting heart structure and function, according to previous study. Preconditioning, on the other hand, has been the subject of very few research. "Preconditioning , or exercise before tumour bearing, appears to have an important cardioprotective role during cancer cachexia by protecting heart structure and function," Tichy explained.

"Even when rats did not exercise during the tumor-bearing period, it helped limit tumour growth," he noted. The researchers looked at mice who either walked on a treadmill for eight weeks or did not exercise at all for the new study.

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