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Any tips for bowel after effects of proton therapy and ADT?
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@brianjarvis He is nearing the end of the 8 week treatment. He has five more sessions to go. Yes, they put in a spacer before his treatments started. I believe the fatigue is coming from the ADT, but could be a combination. Thank you for the response.
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@ou14mejc Though it sounds counterintuitive, (load-bearing) exercise is the key to avoiding fatigue and most other side-effects of ADT.
Most side-effects of ADT are easily minimized/avoided with resistance-training exercise. Here are just a few sites that I’ve bookmarked:
> Drs. Scholz and Moyad talking about exercise and hormone therapy (at a virtual PCRI conference): https://m.youtube.com/watch
> A paper on The Benefits of Exercise During Hormone Therapy: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c68ac6e4b06d2e36a4b8c9/t/55cb7275e4b0d97ae7ff60af/1439396469154/The+Benefits+of+Exercise+During+Hormone+Therapy_Insights+August+2015_PCRI.pdf
> A study about the benefits of exercise to counteract the adverse effects of ADT: (They describe a good resistance-training program): https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fulltext/2023/04000/resistance_exercise_training_increases_muscle_mass.2.aspx