"Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows"

A recent story in the Associated Press states, "With the benefits rivaling some drugs, experts said cancer centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors." Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute says "It’s the first randomized controlled trial to show a reduction in cancer recurrences and improved survival linked to exercise.

Exercise Physiologists have known this for some time now, so it's really fantastic that a study has finally provided evidence the medical community can get excited about. “When we saw the results, we were just astounded,” said study co-author Dr. Christopher Booth, a cancer doctor at Kingston Health Sciences Centre in Kingston, Ontario.

It seems reasonable to expect it will follow that similar results will be proven for other medical challenges currently treated primarily or exclusively with drugs. The following statement in the story alludes to this: "After eight years, the people in the structured exercise program not only became more active than those in the control group but also had 28% fewer cancers and 37% fewer deaths from any cause." Wow! Right?