article_snippet: ’ High levels of fitness in middle age can help men survive cancer, a study has found.
article_snippet: Researchers discovered that of those who developed lung, bowel or prostate cancer, keeping fit cut the chances of those who developed lung, bowel or prostate cancer dying from those who developed lung, bowel or prostate cancer disease by a third.
article_snippet: Almost 14,000 US men had Almost 14,000 US men cardiorespiratory fitness monitored using treadmill tests for nearly seven years from the age of 65.
article_snippet: For the men who developed cancer, a high fitness level was associated with a 32 per cent reduced risk of death.
article_snippet: Mid-life fitness also lowered the risk of being diagnosed with lung and bowel cancer, but apparently not prostate cancer.
article_snippet: The researchers, from the University of Vermont, told the journal JAMA Oncology that future studies were required to look at fitness and cancer in women.