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Professor Martin Halle knows how important sport can be when diagnosed with cancer.
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Regular exercise helps with cancer.
Ten minutes a day is enough.
There are positive effects from chemotherapy, reports a Munich university chief physician.
It feels like the whole of England is worried about Princess Kate.
The 42-year-old shares the fate of millions of people with her cancer diagnosis, including an increasing number of younger people.
Top Munich scientist Professor Martin Halle from the Technical University of Munich explains how exercise can help in the fight against tumor diseases in an interview with 24vita.de and the Münchner Merkur/tz media group.
Cancer at the age of 42: Princess Kate also suffers from a tumor.
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The risk of cancer can be reduced by 25 percent through training
In the fight against cancer, exercise is a good recipe - in two ways: On the one hand, it can reduce your personal risk.
According to studies, it drops by around 25 percent.
On the other hand, regular training also helps if a tumor disease has broken out.
“The patients feel less weak and tired and have fewer side effects from chemotherapy,” reports Professor Martin Halle, chief physician for preventive sports medicine and sports cardiology at the Rechts der Isar University Hospital.
In addition, the effect on the psyche is enormous: “The training gives people new strength because they feel that they can do something about their illness themselves,” says Halle.
At the Center for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology at the Technical University of Munich, he and his team offer their own outpatient clinic on the subject of sports and cancer.
Professor Martin Halle: Short, intensive training makes sense
You don't have to be a sports fan.
Just ten minutes a day is enough.
“These have to have a certain higher intensity,” explains Halle.
“A little walking – the famous 10,000 steps a day – is good, but not enough.
Instead, the organism has to be put into a certain stressful situation.” However, intensive stress can be too much for people undergoing chemotherapy, and regeneration is also slowed down.
That's why short, intensive training makes sense - about 30 seconds of sprinting every now and then in addition to walking, perhaps only ten to 20 meters.
Scientists from the Technical University of Munich recommend a combination of endurance and strength training
According to the findings of the top Munich scientist, a combination of endurance training with strength and coordination training is optimal.
A short jogging session or jogging in place for one to two minutes - several times a day - can be basic training.
In addition, forearm supports on the floor or on the wall in the morning and evening, for 30 seconds each, because the entire muscles are addressed.
Important: Dose your training so that you feel fresh and not tired the next day.
Study shows dramatic increase in cancer cases among younger people
Around half a million people in Germany alone receive the shock diagnosis of cancer every year.
More and more younger women and men are also affected.
A large international study, among other things, fueled growing concern in medical circles.
The number of cancer cases in people under 50 has increased dramatically over the past 30 years.
“In 2019, 3.26 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in people under 50 worldwide.
That’s 79.1 percent more than in 1990,” the scientists report in the journal “BMJ Oncology.”
In addition, more and more middle-aged people are dying from tumors.
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Data from the US Cancer Institute confirm alarming developments.
Data evaluations from the US Cancer Institute also confirm the dangerous trend.
According to this, younger women like the English Princess Kate are particularly affected by the increase in tumor diseases.
After breast cancer and thyroid carcinoma, early-stage colorectal cancer was diagnosed most frequently.