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Exercise programme may lower risk of recurrence and death for some colon cancer survivors

ASCO 2025

30 May - 3 Jun 2025

Published: 1 Jun 2025

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Dr Christopher Booth - Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Dr Booth talks to ecancer at ASCO 2025 about data he presented on from the first randomised clinical trial to specifically evaluate if a structured exercise programme can reduce the risk of recurrent or new cancer for a subset of patients with colon cancer.

For patients with stage III and high-risk stage II colon cancer, a structured exercise programme following surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy was found to reduce the risk of recurrent or new cancer and increased survival.

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