Those of you who have followed me for years know I am totally committed to exercise. I strongly believed and endorsed its positive effects for disease control, especially for cancer. long before it was fashionable or well documented. I started a cancer exercise program at UCSF within 18 months of being diagnosed myself in 2007, that has flourished. At the time there was a paucity of evidence …. now it is abundant. Some of that evidence is well documented on the Research Page of our MedaFit site.
Our regular paritcpants in the High Risk/Recurrent/Advanced Prostate Cancer Virtual Group will know we have two particpants who swear by Dragon Boat Racing ….. Richard Foody who paddles for the MSKCC team.trained by guru Donna Wilson, as you can see.
And Advisory Board Member, Richard Wassersug PhD who paddles out West for his Vancouver based Butts in a Boat team. Richard’s colleagues recently published an academic paper in the February 2020 Issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology that, to none of our surprise, concludes:
Physical activity improves quality of life in men with PC and recreationalphysical activity interventions may be attractive supportive care options for PC survivors with both physical and psychosocial benefits. Joining a sportfocused care group may increase social support and elicit positive psychological growth and future interventions may benefit from integrating the unique characteristics of dragon boating into peer support programs formale cancer survivors.
You can read the full Dragon Boat PCa study 2020 by clcking on the live link. Kudos to both Richards on their Dragon Boat Paddling!
Me on the other hand ….. am very happy in my single scull – the exercise without the social part!