主办单位:成都体育学院
ISSN 1001-9154 CN 51-1097/G8

Journal of Chengdu Sport University ›› 2021, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 1-8.doi: 10.15942/j.jcsu.2021.02.001

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Exercise as Therapy in Cancer: Past, Present and Future

ZHU Weimo   

  1. University of Illinois, Illinois USA 61801
  • Received:2020-12-20 Revised:2021-01-05 Online:2021-03-15 Published:2021-03-26

Abstract: Researches in China and abroad in the past few decades have proved that exercise plays an active role in the prevention and treatment of cancer - the most dangerous disease in humans. Exercise has entered the clinical front line of cancer treatment in foreign countries as a "synergistic medicine". As a new discipline, sports oncology was born and is developing. This article aims to introduce this new discipline by reviewing the development of exercise as therapy in cancer in the past and analyzing its advancement in China and abroad and on this basis, to describe and prospect the future research directions and problems that need to be solved in practice.

Key words: exercise is medicine (EIM), exercise prescription, evidence-based medicine

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