Improving Fitness Levels Can Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk by 35%, Study Finds

The study, involving over 57,000 men, found a significant link between increased cardiorespiratory fitness and decreased prostate cancer risk.

Men who improve their cardiorespiratory fitness levels by just 3% a year are 35% less likely to develop prostate cancer, according to a study.
The study involved more than 57,000 men, with an average age of 41, and was conducted over an average of seven years.
Cardiorespiratory fitness is a measure of how well the heart and lungs deliver oxygen to the muscles during exercise, and can be improved through regular exercise such as running, cycling or swimming.
The rate of prostate cancer was highest in the group whose fitness levels fell and lowest in the group whose fitness levels increased.
The study, conducted by several universities across Sweden and led by the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.