His high-intensity sessions which involve running, cycling, rowing and lifting heavy weights are perhaps all the more impressive when you realise Robert has been battling advanced prostate cancer for the last four and a half years. The toxic side-effects of the treatments he was having made him put on weight, and he felt sluggish and depressed. (Image: DAILY MIRROR)Then, 18 months ago, Robert became the first man in the UK to take part in a pioneering multinational clinical trial looking at whether high-intensity exercise could extend the lives of men with metastatic prostate cancer. (Image: DAILY MIRROR)Patients on the active arm of the study do three sessions of high-intensity exercise a week over two years. “We amend sessions accordingly and take any changes in their disease into account.”There is growing evidence that being physically active is beneficial during different stages of cancer treatment.

Source: Daily Mirror November 04, 2019 21:22 UTC