Exercise for Life Cancer Prevention with Exercise and Lifestyle Modifications

摘要

Although heart disease is the number one cause of death (COD) in the United States, cancer is more feared by most Americans. This may be with good reason too. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the incidence of cancer is increasing, In 2006, one in every four deaths in the United States was due to cancer (1). Awareness of heart disease and its causes and prevention have been in the forefront of public health since the 1960s. As a result, the percentage of deaths caused by heart disease has decreased. During the same period, the percentage of total deaths attributed to cancer has increased. If the trend continues, within the next 10 years, cancer may surpass heart disease as the leading COD (Table 1) (1).