Exercise enhances therapeutics effects of chemotherapy and decreases side effects
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4459555.htm and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffgAVrANmS4
Forum Discussion
Ohhh the do gooders I get it - I really do!!
The biggest part of the message is that there is evidence that moving during chemo - before and after - might increase blood flow and might improve therapeutics. Let's put the feeling wretched aside. If that is true, and physiologically the hypothesis fits, that is important.
I did AC 4/Taxol 4 dose dense - felt crap to the point where I could not go up a flight of stairs without stopping midway during the AC - HB dropped to 7-8 - was offered a blood transfusion - no thanks ( ...reasons for that ).
Probably the best advice I got was from someone who told me to suck it up and get on with it - that made me furious, not guilty - I was sooo angry with her, but I moved. That woman is a pediatrician, a breast cancer patient, a mother and a grandmother.
I think the point is to move as much as you can - and to move around the chemo (which even on 2 weekly dose dense I could ) - because you bounce back a little by the end of week 2 and it did not really get me on Day 1 - my worst days were 3-5 - dizzy, nausea, almighty constipation and of course rather out of breath...sleeplessness and ohh hot flushes galore.
(Some of the work refers to patients that have to be on low dose chemo long term and the side effect profile for that is a little gentler, and preservation of muscle mass is critical in that group.)
The biggest part of the message is that there is evidence that moving during chemo - before and after - might increase blood flow and might improve therapeutics. Let's put the feeling wretched aside. If that is true, and physiologically the hypothesis fits, that is important.
I did AC 4/Taxol 4 dose dense - felt crap to the point where I could not go up a flight of stairs without stopping midway during the AC - HB dropped to 7-8 - was offered a blood transfusion - no thanks ( ...reasons for that ).
Probably the best advice I got was from someone who told me to suck it up and get on with it - that made me furious, not guilty - I was sooo angry with her, but I moved. That woman is a pediatrician, a breast cancer patient, a mother and a grandmother.
I think the point is to move as much as you can - and to move around the chemo (which even on 2 weekly dose dense I could ) - because you bounce back a little by the end of week 2 and it did not really get me on Day 1 - my worst days were 3-5 - dizzy, nausea, almighty constipation and of course rather out of breath...sleeplessness and ohh hot flushes galore.
(Some of the work refers to patients that have to be on low dose chemo long term and the side effect profile for that is a little gentler, and preservation of muscle mass is critical in that group.)