Clinical trial shows benefit of yoga for side effects of prostate cancer treatment

Men who attended a structured yoga class twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment reported less fatigue and better sexual and urinary function than those who didn’t, according to a clinical trial led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. It is the first randomised trial to look at the effect of twice-weekly yoga on the side-effects and quality of life issues caused by prostate cancer treatment. The results were published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics. All of the patients in the trial underwent between six and nine weeks of