News tagged ‘Exercise’ clear
Dana-Farber president Edward J. Benz, MD, comments on a report showing decline in rates of death in the U.S. from all cancers for men and women. The findings come from the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
Tags: Exercise, Disparities, Prevention
Strong social connections may make it harder for some people who live in low-income, minority communities to lead a healthy lifestyle,
report Dana-Farber and Harvard School of Public Health researchers.
Tags: Exercise, Disparities, Prevention
Researchers have isolated a natural hormone from muscle cells that triggers some of the key health benefits of exercise. Irisin, which switches on genes that convert white fat into "good" brown fat, may hold promise as a novel treatment for diabetes, obesity and perhaps other disorders, including cancer.
Tags: BasicResearch, Exercise, Hormones
- Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a previously unknown protein in muscles that spurs their growth and increased power following resistance exercise. They suggest that artificially raising the protein’s levels might someday help prevent muscle loss caused by cancer, prolonged inactivity in hospital patients, and aging.
Tags: BasicResearch, Exercise
The number of cancer survivors reported by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute demonstrates
how important it is to provide survivors with the care and follow-up
they need to live healthy lives, says Dana-Farber's Dr. Lisa Diller.
Tags: Exercise, Survivorship
- A protein that dwindles in response to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle
may one day help doctors predict which people are at increased risk for
pancreatic cancer, new research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and
collaborating scientists indicates.
Tags: Exercise, PancreaticCancer
- Normally sedentary breast cancer survivors who completed an exercise
program reduced the levels of insulin in their blood, revealing a likely
link between physical activity and better outcomes, researchers from
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston reported at the annual meeting of
the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.
Tags: BreastCancer, Exercise