Insights for Warriors

As we have learned in the previous steps, exercise is known for its preventive, complementary and rehabilitative role in cancer management. It helps to mitigate cancer-related fatigue, restore physical function and enhance cardiorespiratory fitness, improving survival rate. Moreover, exercise has broader clinical benefits as a synergistic and targeted therapy. In particular, it has the powerful potential to enhance chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic effectiveness.

In this interview, Prof Robert Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine in the Exercise Medicine Research Institute at Edith Cowan University (Perth, Western Australia), talks about exercise during cancer treatment and the effects of strength and high intensity training in patients with cancer.