
Dr Gillian Prue
Queen's University Belfast
Senior Lecturer in Chronic Illness
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Abstract
When exercise is the drug: can activity levels really be used to treat prostate cancer?
There is sufficient evidence demonstrating the
Epidemiological studies do however suggest that exercise may improve survival given the lower mortality rate seen in more active men post prostate cancer treatment, this has yet to be definitely demonstrated in a clinical trial.
The INTERVAL study, a global study of exercise in advanced prostate cancer is currently underway to attempt to answer this question. Although exercise is not a pharmacologic intervention, when prescribed appropriately, it does confer
It is necessary to use an ‘exercise as medicine’ approach, individually prescribing and designing the intervention
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