General Exercise Guidelines Are Safe for Patients With Cancer

(00:03:27) Elsevier Global Medical News, 2010 Jun 10, K Wachter

Kathryn Schmitz, PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

It is safe for patients undergoing treatment for cancer to follow national exercise guidelines, which recommend up to 150 minutes of moderate activity each week. For cancer patients and cancer survivors, the benefits of exercise far outweigh the small risk of adverse events.

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