Cancer patients who exercise tend to do better than those who do not. While one cannot escape an established cancer via physical activity, one can modestly slow it down, it appears. Researchers here explore some of the mechanisms by which exercise can achieve this goal, focusing on muscle tissue signaling that both slows cancer cell growth and provokes greater immune system activity. The usual path forward for this sort of research, given a large enough effect size to be interesting, is to try to find a way to deliver additional signal proteins as a form of treatment. This might be achieved directly using recombinant protein therapy, or via some form of small molecule drug that upregulates signal protein expression. In either case, that is a road of some ye…
Exploring Mechanisms by Which Exercise Slows Cancer Progression
Cancer patients who exercise tend to do better than those who do not. While one cannot escape an established cancer via physical activity, one can modestly slow it down, it appears. Researchers here explore some of the mechanisms by which exercise can achieve this goal, focusing on muscle tissue signaling that both slows cancer cell growth and provokes greater immune system activity. The usual path forward for this sort of research, given a large enough effect size to be interesting, is to try to find a way to deliver additional signal proteins as a form of treatment. This might be achieved directly using recombinant protein therapy, or via some form of small molecule drug that upregulates signal protein expression. In either case, that is a road of some ye…