alternative cancer therapy

							Alternative Cancer Therapy



The exercise component of alternative cancer therapy can increase your
survival chances by 50 percent

An alternative cancer therapy does not have to be the only cancer therapy
employed to battle the disease. Both conventional and alternative therapies
can work together to fight the disease and defeat it. Whether using
alternative cancer therapy alone or conventional therapy, or a combination,
one essential component for all of them is exercise. Some extravgant claims
have been made for the efficacy of exercise in the fight against cancer.
According to one person, a junior college professor of philosophy in Northern
California, his bone cancer was completely cured because he began training
for and participating in marathon runs. Sometimes there are just spontaneous
remissions. Nevertheless, exercise is proving to be a significant factor in
cancer treatment.

Until there is more conclusive evidence that exercise is a causal agent in
the cure of cancer, it must still be included as a part of an alternative
cancer therapy method. Studies are still being made on the subject, but the
outlook is promising. In the seasonal periodical, Cure, two case studies are
cited that support the theory that exercise can improve the chances of
cancer survival. The astounding conclusions of these studies was that adding
exercise to cancer theraphy reduced the probability of death of the cancer
patients engaged in the study by 50 percent! The amount of exercise
needed to get such a result was not much. Walking one hour a day for
six days at a normal pace increased the likelihood of survival of colorectal
cancer patients by 47 percent!

The second study had less discrete variables to consider. Activity versus
inactivity were the independent variables, but what constituted activity or the
lack of it was not fully defined. Still, the findings were encouraging. A 50
percent reduction in mortality of colorectal cancer patients was found. If
exercise is still in the province of alternative cancer therapy, it goes far to
recommend alternative therapy.
Then there is the study found in the Journal of Clinical Oncology of breast
cancer patients who were put under a regimen of weight lifting exercise, a
therapy component you will find in alternative cancer therapy. These patients
lifted weights three times a week, doing two sets of eight to twelve
repetitions in a single workout. As well as gaining increased body mass and
strength, those on the program were found to complete their chemotheraphy
treatment in greater numbers than those who were not on the program. In
past decades, resistance exercise would have been considered part of an
alternative cancer treatment, but not an essential component of conventional
therapy; but with such findings, it is quickly being accepted today by cancer
specialists as a necessary adjunct to conventional therapy.

If exercise is not being encouraged by your oncologist, engage in it
yourself. The studies that have been performed have shown that the most
significant obstacles to taking exercise out of the alternative cancer therapy
category is that many patients do not sustain the schedule. This is to be
expected, since conventional therapy is quiet gruelling in itself. That
professor of philosophy claims that exercise as a cancer victim is an
expression of your will to live. It's the battle of your life, for your life.
You'll have to reach deep down inside to force yourself to be active, to
strain those muscles and consume your energy, but then, in the end, when
you're one of the 50 percent who survive, you'll have the reward that's
worth all the pain and suffering. You'll have your life. Exercise, exercise as
if your life depended on it. It very well might.
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