Nuclear Oncology

According to experts, meeting at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium for the University School of Real Madrid-Universidad Europea de Madrid, having a routine of exercises appropriate to the profile of each cancer patient could help them recover better and cope with their disease better quality of life.

“It increases immunity, speeds recovery after surgery prevents opportunistic infections, enhances the physical appearance, self esteem, motivation and other psychological issues,” says Carlos Hué, a professor at the University of Zaragoza and vice president of the Association and operated EuropaColon ago seven years of cancer.

For his part, Vice President of the Spanish Society for Medical Oncology (SEOM), Dr. Juan Jesús Cruz, said that “the list of benefits attributed to exercise training is growing. Anything goes, from leaving the couch and climb stairs, walk, play bocce or golf … Whatever. ”

On the other hand, Dr. Margarita Feyjoo, chief of Oncology at the Hospital Sanitas La Moraleja, stressed that the exercise depends on the profile of each individual.

“If you’ve never played sports and is a patient in good general condition, for example, a young woman with breast cancer, you should find what best suits yourself, what you like. Maybe it is not going for a run every day, but to find something in a group that makes you move, “said Feyjoo.

“In the case of more severe patients, with a more deteriorated state of health or, for example, bone metastases, it may be only going out for a walk,” says the specialist, while recalling the importance of oncologists address the issue at the first consultation. ”

Finally, Margarita Perez Ruiz, a professor of exercise physiology at the European University of Madrid, has added that keeping fit can alleviate fatigue caused by cancer treatments by 70% of patients, and that is not relieved by rest .

“It benefits the muscular system, increases cardiorespiratory fitness, reduces nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy, reduces the side effects of some therapies on heart and bone marrow … But it must be dosed well and adjust their intensity to each patient and the evolution of the disease, “said Perez quoted the newspaper ‘The New York Times.