Home-based diet and exercise improves elderly cancer survivors' physical function

A home-based program to improve exercise and diet led to significant, clinically meaningful improvement in body weight and physical function among older long-term cancer survivors in preliminary findings from the RENEW (Reach-out to ENhancE Wellness) trial, according to Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Ph.D., from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre's Department of Behavioural Science. The data are being presented at the seventh annual American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Conference...

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