Colon cancer sitting is deadly

Colon cancer: too much sitting is deadly: Anyone who moves a lot before or after the diagnosis of colorectal cancer has a longer life expectancy. That resulted in an American study.

02/06/2013

The result: Around 150 minutes of moderate to strenuous exercise in cancer are recommended per week. 2293 initially healthy patients participated in the study. They completed detailed questionnaires on their lifestyle both before and after the diagnosis of non-metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma (JCO 2013, online January 22).

2.5 hours of exercise
Depending on the intensity of the weekly physical activity in their free time, they were divided into three groups: less than 3.5 MET hours (equivalent to less than one hour walking), 3.5 to 8.74 MET hours (corresponding to one to two and a half Hours) or more than 8.75 MET hours.

Good advice: shorter sitting times
The lowest mortality was found in patients with at least 8.75 MET hours per week. Conversely, subjects who sat in their daily free time for more than six hours, had a shorter survival than those with sitting times of less than three hours.