Football Training May Preserve Bone Health in Prostate Cancer Patients (IMAGE)

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Football Training May Preserve Bone Health in Prostate Cancer Patients

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Androgen deprivation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer can lead to loss of muscle and bone mass. In a recent Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sport study of elderly patients undergoing the treatment, playing football -- or what's known as soccer in the United States -- over a 5-year period was linked with preserved bone mineral density (BMD) in the neck of the leg's femur.

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Bo Kousgaard

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