A new study by scientists from the American Cancer Society shows that the rest of guidelines on healthy lifestyle benefit the cancer survivors. In an analysis of nearly 4,000 non-smoking participants in the nutritional cohort of the cancer prevention study which received a diagnosis of obesity-related cancers, those who remained physically active, ate a healthy diet, limited alcohol consumption and maintained healthy weight before and after their diagnosis. The survivors who followed the guidelines had a risk of mortality all causes of 24% lower and a risk of 21% of deaths linked to cancer.
“These results emphasize how to make the right lifestyle choices really affect the survival of cancer,” explains the author of the main study, Yin Wang, Phd.