Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third, stop tumours coming back and is even more effective than drugs, according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide.
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This study absolutely didn’t prove what the headlines said. The authors of the study are being needlessly provocative and the author of this article didn’t call them on but rather just parroted their talking points.
The two arms were 1) structured, guided exercise regime or 2) just a booklet telling them to exercise. If they wanted to prove it was “better than a drug” then the comparator arms should be exercise vs some kind of drug.
They didn’t do that. What they did prove is that exercise is good for reducing cancer recurrence. That’s good! But why give it an unnecessary bar of being better than a drug? It’s not accurate and it doesn’t make their initial finding any less meaningful to not compare to a drug.
Normally I wouldn’t give a 💩because popular health reporting is generally abysmal but given the current leadership of our health services in the US I’m kind of fed up with bad science interpretation.
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