One run a day keeps the...cancer away!

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Break submission by Manja Idorn, PhD student, and Per thor Straten, PhD, Centre for Cancer Immune Therapy, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, Denmark

A healthy life-style, including regular exercise, has long been associated with the prevention of diabetes and heart attack. Moreover, exercise helps to lower other major disease risk factors, e.g. obesity and high blood pressure. When it comes to cancer, it is suggested that exercise confers some protection, but to which extent, why, and how is largely unknown. (read the Break on TheScienceBreaker)