I have seen on tv about some excercise class trials for cancer patients and how they help the prognosis of bowel cancer patients in particular. When i have made enquiries with my oncologist, cancer nurses and macmillan nurses no-one seems to know about it.
Although at the moment I have times when moving from a chair is a mammoth task (still on 7 of 13 folfox chemo preventative for stage 3 sigmoid tumour - removed in march) I am very keen to try building up my strength in this way.
The Royal Marsden has a couple of exercise videos for cancer patients. https://patientinfolibrary.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/exercise-home/exercise-home-circuit-c
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