Study shows exercise plays a direct role in reducing breast cancer

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KXAN) – It has long been understood that exercise can be beneficial in preventing some types of cancers, but only in recent years have scientists started to understand why.A team of Texas A&M researchers showed in a recently published paper that a hormone secreted by muscles during exercise can reduce tumor growth and even kill cancerous cells. “That was the cool and, I guess, groundbreaking news that we were able to show mechanistically – there