RADIATION
Exercise during radiation treatments is among the hardest ‘asks’ in the Moving Through Cancer program.
There are plenty of people who would ask why we would ask someone going through radiation to exercise. The answer is that we have documented evidence that exercise will help with symptoms during radiation. What we generally recommend is that you try to do the exercises as prescribed for 10 minutes – and if you don’t feel better, stop for the day and try again the next day.
There are 5 aspects to the Chemotherapy program.
If you want to read some of the science behind exercise during cancer treatment, try these sources:
https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/moving-through-cancer/
scroll to the bottom for the links to 5 papers that we think will convince you of the value of exercise before, during and after cancer treatment.
Also see:
A PubMed search for ‘cancer radiation’ ‘exercise’ and ‘clinical trial’: