Cancer: 'If exercise was a pill it would be prescribed to every patient'

Leading Australian researchers back world-first campaign for activity to be part of any treatment

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Exercise should be prescribed to all cancer patients, and not to do so would be harmful, some of Australia's leading experts on cancer have warned.

The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia has launched its position statement on the role of exercise alongside surgery, chemotherapy or radiation in cancer care.