Regular exercise in men's or women's fitness clothing can reduce long-term breathlessness in lung cancer survivors, a study has suggested.

Called dyspnea, this shortness of breath is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms among lung cancer patients.

Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and University of Medicine and Dentistry's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School surveyed 342 early-stage lung cancer survivors and found that 60 per cent suffered from dyspnea.

Associations were found between a lack of physical activity and an increased risk of dyspnea.

"The identification of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with dyspnea is perhaps the most significant finding," said Dr Marc Feinstein, assistant attending physician in the pulmonary service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

"This implies that strategies which improve physical activity or relieve depressive symptoms may result in improved breathlessness," he added.

Earlier in the year, Professor Martin Wiseman, scientific and medical adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund, said that, if people exercised more, about a third of cases of the most common cancers in the UK could be prevented.

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