| VA RESEARCH:
EXERCISE MAY PROTECT FROM PROSTATE CANCER
The study also found that exercise was
associated with less aggressive disease in men who did develop
prostate cancer.
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Exercise May Prevent Prostate
Cancer: Study
Report adds to debate over the
value of exercise as a protector for men
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/09/25/e
xercise-may-prevent-prostate-cancer-study.html
 (HealthDay
News) -- Regular exercise may help protect men from prostate
cancer, says a new study.
U.S. researchers looked at 190 men who had a prostate biopsy and
found that those who were moderately active -- anything equivalent
to walking at a moderate pace for several hours a week -- were
significantly less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The study also found that
exercise was associated with less aggressive disease in men who
did develop prostate cancer.
"As the amount of exercise increased, the risk of cancer
decreased," lead author Dr. Jodi Antonelli, a urology resident at
Duke University Medical Center, said in a news release.
The results, published Sept. 22 online in the Journal of Urology,
contribute to the ongoing debate about how exercise affects
prostate cancer risk, said study senior author Dr. Stephen
Freedland, a urologist at Duke and the Durham Veterans Affairs
Hospital.
"There have been dozens of studies about the value of exercise in
lowering risk of prostate cancer, and some of them quite large,
but the bottom line is that they've left us with mixed signals,"
Freedland said in the news release.
The majority (58 percent) of the men in this study were sedentary,
which means they exercised less than the equivalent of one hour
per week of easy walking.
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The abstract of this study,
conducted at the Durham VA, can be found here ...
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022
-5347%2809%2901757-1/abstract
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