r/Futurology • u/NGNResearch • 5d ago

Medicine One day oncologists may be able to write “prescriptions” for cancer patients that suppress tumor growth, a researcher says.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/25/can-exercise-fight-cancer/

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Researchers studied how increasing exercise intensity or increasing exercise duration leads to greater and sustained tumor suppression in mice. The researchers believe that this means exercise can be included in cancer treatment regimens. In the future, cancer patients may be able to follow a specific exercise routine to suppress tumor growth. It will be interesting to see how different types of exercises affect the growth and if a certain type of exercise lends itself better to certain types of tumors.