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Muscle recovery time post 12 months ADT
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"Next week he will start going to the hospital gym after treatment since I read that it can enhance RT effect on cancer cells."
Actually Dr Newton recommends 10-20 minutes of exercise shortly before radiation, both in his 2025 PCRI presentation as well as his book. It gets blood and oxygen flowing to the tumor which helps with the radiation. Not sure how easily I could work in a 20 minute workout prior to my treatment, with a full bladder no less, but will do everything I can to keep up my present routine.
Thank you for the kind and reassuring words, I will certainly feel better after next week, hopefully the actual treatments will be as much of a "non event" as Mr Surf's was.
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@carlsbadguy
Not only does exercise help the check out this information about running.
Running and prostate cancer
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12535562/
https://bioengineer.org/exercise-conditioned-serum-inhibits-prostate-cancer-growth/
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@carlsbadguy
Yes, I found info about exercise and RT in several places. In some papers it was suggested that exercise in general helps with RT results regardless of the timing. What is important is to help blood get extra oxygenated so it provides oxidative stress to cells. I also found out information about blood actual levels of oxygen after exercise and to my surprise blood stays extra oxygenated for several hours or more, even for the whole day (depending of intensity of exercise). Since cancer cells continue to die off for days and even months after RT is finished, I think that having extra oxygen at any point is beneficial, and if oxygenation last for 24 hours than even exercising day before has benefits.
Also, as you said yourself, doing that level of exercise with overfull bladder is really almost impossible for most people. I mean, I would not be able to do that and neither can my husband - bladder is full to the point of discomfort even when one just sits or is lying down 😬.
If you can, by all means follow advice form your book, but if not, it is comforting yo know that exercising at any point has benefits and helps with oxygenation, hormone distribution, immunity boosting etc etc. 👍