Cancer patients beat depression with exercise

Exercise can help cancer patients overcome depression and anxiety, leading to benefits within six weeks, new research from a Western Australian university shows.

The study involved 32 patients with a range of cancers - including brain, prostate and breast cancer - who were experiencing depressive symptoms, as well as two people undergoing palliative care.

The participants were randomly split into three groups: people exercising at home, those doing gym-based exercise and others who did no exercise at all.

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