Exercise after colorectal cancer surgery and therapy PROLONGS survival
Study Overview
✅ Large study, almost 900 patients
5-Year Disease-Free Survival
✔️ The 5-year disease-free survival was 80.3% in the exercise group and 73.9% in the health-education group (difference, 6.4 percentage points; 95% CI, 0.6 to 12.2).
Overall Survival
☑️ longer overall survival in the exercise group than in the health-education group (hazard ratio for death, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.43 to 0.94).
8-Year Overall Survival
✅ The 8-year overall survival was 90.3% in the exercise group and 83.2% in the health-education group (difference, 7.1 percentage points; 95% CI, 1.8 to 12.3).
Source/reference
Reference: NEJM