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Dear subscriber,
Welcome to the latest Living with cancer newsletter.
Keep on moving
More and more women are surviving breast cancer thanks to advances in diagnosis and treatment. However, many women can experience poor health and quality of life during and after cancer. Some research suggests that being active may improve this, so effective approaches to help people be more active, especially if they are fairly low cost, are an important area of cancer survival research.
WCRF-funded research by Prof Brigid Lynch in Australia provides evidence that wearable fitness trackers may increase physical activity in women after breast cancer, and therefore may improve quality of life. At the end of Prof Lynch's 12-week research trial, the group wearing fitness trackers performed 69 minutes more physical activity than the control group who did not wear the trackers, and sat for 37 minutes less per day.
To add to this evidence base, we are funding new research by Prof Andre La Gerche, to investigate if exercise can prevent functional disability in breast cancer survivors.
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This month was Giving Tuesday, when usually we encourage people to consider making a donation to World Cancer Research Fund.
One of the things my Mum found hard during the many years she lived with cancer was always being asked how she was. It can get tiring talking about yourself, so why not, during lockdown, turn the conversation around and ask other people about their health?
