Cancer patients should engage in physical exercise because it improves the body’s defenses, aiding recovery and preventing clinical complications different side-motivation and self-esteem, increase social relations and greater capacity for empathy, and increased well-being and personal happiness, as experts have pointed out during the day ‘Sport and oncological diseases, an alliance of patient benefit. ”

“The main benefits of exercise to cancer patients are basically four: improving the body’s defenses, aiding recovery and preventing clinical complications side, improvement in staff motivation and, therefore, self-esteem, increased relations social and greater capacity for empathy, and increased personal comfort and happiness, “explained Dr. Carlos Hué, Spain Europacolon vice president and associate professor of psychology at the University of Zaragoza.

During the meeting, organized by the University School of Real Madrid, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Dr. Margarita Feyjoo Saus, Head of Oncology Department of the Hospital Sanitas La Moraleja, said that “the practice of sport as a routine, the patient arrives to reconcile with itself and conquers alterations caused by their disease as fatigue and altered body image, which often cause the patient is unstructured and an important mind-body dissociation. ”

“Thanks to the sport, the patient can cope with the physical bodily changes and their associated physical disease, and treatment and achieve a positive emotional state, experienced as your body develops with exercise, feel it and share your body with others” he says.

Moreover, Dr. Margarita Pérez Ruíz, Professor of Exercise Physiology, European University of Madrid, explains that “the fatigue one of the most common complaints of people diagnosed with cancer and survivors of this disease.”

This symptom occurs especially in individuals who are under treatment. In fact, “most cancer patients experience fatigue during and after chemotherapy, radiotherapy and / or hormonal therapy”, adds this expert.

Recent studies suggest that fatigue may result from alterations in muscle energy systems caused by cancer and its treatment, a claim that Dr. Margarita Perez Ruiz complete inactivity also noting that “seems to be one of the triggers of fatigue, weakness and the loss of functional abilities, as well as reduced quality of life experienced by patients and survivors of this disease. “