ASCO Physical Activity and Survival After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (From 2011)

Most of you that know a little about me are aware that I place a high value on exercise as a means of PCa, and overall health.  In fact if truth be known I'd have to admit I'm a bit addicted to that!

Anyway I always keep my eyes open for information on the whole topic of exercise and PCa, and saw an article in Dr. Geo's blog about a study published by the ASCO, by Kenfield, et al that was published in 2011 that caught my eye so I thought I'd put it out here.  I did a search for "Kenfield" here on HW and saw that it has been covered before, so I guess let's just consider this a "bump" to bring it up again!

As an overview, the population and approach was to "evaluate physical activity in relation to overall and PCa mortality among 2,705 men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study diagnosed with nonmetastatic PCa observed from 1990 to 2008."

Their conclusion: "In men with PCa, physical activity was associated with lower overall mortality and PCa mortality."

Here's the link to the abstract for more details:

http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/early/2011/0http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/early/2011/01/04/JCO.2010.31.5226.abstract1/04/JCO.2010.31.5226.abstract

 

Hey there, A Yooper! Dr Mark Moyad gave one of my very favorite quotes about exercise in one of the PAACT newsletters ( P atient A dvocates for A dvanced C ancer T reatments).   Hope that you don’t mind if I share it here.   He describes his own version of “ stacking the odds in one’s favor .”   Remember, that when you exercise regularly this is an investment that is put into your health bank and constantly gains interest regardless of your weight.   So again, exercise regularly (30 minutes a day) and if you do not initially lose weight then no problem because it all still counts in terms of increasing your chances of living longer compared to individuals of similar weight that do not apparently have the time to exercise.   Also, this is a great study [discussed earlier in the article] for all those people that love to tell the story of some unhealthy person that lived to be 100 years old. Sure, this can happen, but for every unhealthy person that lives to be 100 there are hundreds of other unhealthy people that never lived to be 40 years old because they were not taking care of themselves.   And, for all those people that love to tell the story of one young healthy person that died young, there are hundreds of other stories of people that lived to be very old because they were taking care of themselves. All of this stuff basically comes down to probability, and of course no one is given a guarantee that they will live longer if they exercise and maintain a healthy weight, but who gives a darn - I am going to side with the higher probability here and I refuse to side with the improbable here because most of us live by trying to increase our odds or improving our probabilities. Let me put this another way - say you are in Las Vegas and the roulette wheel contains the number 25 on every location except one, and if you place your life savings on the odds that the ball will fall in the slot that does not contain the number 25 then you should have your head examined! Yeah, you may get lucky, but I am more inclined to bet my life savings on the chance that the ball will fall on the number 25!   Solid guidance!

I have continued Casey's winter program for the last several months. I do something almost every day.

Well ed, in addition to what the reported statistics say, I would paraphrase you to answer your question about "what does it mean" -

"in general active, healthy people live longer."