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A promising study reveals that exercise can help the recurrence of colon cancer after surgery or chemotherapy, improving chances of survival.

The findings were presented over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) an d published in the New England Journal of Medicine .

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Researchers in Canada said its trial was conducted over 17 years, and it was the first to prove that exercise after surgery and chemotherapy improved long-term outcomes for people with colon cancer.

The trial included 889 patients with stage III or high-risk stage II colon cancer who had finished surgery and chemotherapy.

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The participants were then split into two groups. One grou

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