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Health briefs: Exercise benefits prostate

Vigorous exercise causes changes in some 180 prostate genes among men with early stage prostate cancer, a new study suggests. Included are genes known to suppress tumor growth and repair DNA, which might mean that exercise could prevent or delay progression of the disease, the researchers said. "There are many reasons to exercise," June Chan, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics,...

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