Signs and Symptoms of Colon Cancer If you made a New Years
resolution to begin exercising on a regular basis, heres yet
another reason to stick to it. New research concludes that
consistent exercising is associated with a lower risk from dying
of colon cancer. One in every seventeen people in the United
States will develop the disease. Deaths from this cancer rank
third after lung and prostate cancer for men and third after
lung and breast cancer for women. This new study in support of
exercise was conducted by researchers at the Siteman Cancer
Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-
Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Although we all know exercise is
good for us, their research is the first to show that physical
activity can make colon cancer a less deadly disease.
Researchers form Washington University collaborated with the
American Cancer Society Cancer Society Prevention Study II (CPS
II) and reviewed whether changes in physical activity influenced
either the incidence of colon cancer or t