"Cancer patients should be offered yoga, tai chi and Nordic walking as part of their NHS care to boost their chances of survival and stop tumours returning, a major charity has said. Maggie's, which operates 27 cancer support centres across the UK, is urging NHS bosses to embed exercise into the care offered to the 386,000 Britons diagnosed with the disease every year."
"We know that cancer doesn't end when treatment does. If the national cancer strategy is serious about boosting survival it must look very closely at targeted exercise programmes, particularly with the number of people with cancer growing year on year and more than 6 million new cases predicted by 2040, said Laura Lee, the chief executive of Maggie's. The suggestion comes as it emerged the cancer plan, which was due this autumn, has been postponed until early in the new year."
Maggie's, operating 27 cancer support centres across the UK, urges embedding targeted exercise programmes such as yoga, tai chi and Nordic walking into NHS cancer care for the 386,000 Britons diagnosed annually. The charity states that making physical activity available would reduce demand on doctors and nurses and save the health service millions of pounds. The campaign calls on the health secretary to include exercise in the national cancer plan. The national cancer plan has been postponed until early next year. Research commissioned by Maggie's from York University shows exercise improves patients' sleep.
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