A home-based diet and exercise program reduced the rate of functional decline in a study of more than 600 overweight and older cancer survivors, according to a report in the May 13 issue of JAMA. Even modest lifestyle changes elicited by the program produced clinically meaningful improvements in physical function and health-related quality of life for patients who were 5 years or more beyond their cancer diagnosis, said Miriam C. Morey, Ph.D., of Duke University's Center for the Study of Aging and...