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Dragon-boat racing helps heal cancer survivors in Singapore.
2004 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dragon-boat racing was hardly the hobby that friends and family expected Kate Wong, 62, to pick up just months after undergoing surgery for breast cancer.
"At your age?" Kate recalled her friends asking when she told them she planned to join a crew of 20 women in races where they thrust paddles into the water in unison to the rapid pounding of a drum.
Some feared for her health, thinking that exercising her chest and arms so soon after surgery could be dangerous. But Wong went ahead and in January 2003 became a founding member of the Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation's dragon boat program.
The program, billed as Asia's first, puts women who have recently recovered from breast cancer into dragon boats - long, flat water canoes - twice a week for grueling training sessions. It is thought that the training helps them heal physically and emotionally from the ordeal of breast cancer.
Fears that regular strenuous paddling could be harmful are unfounded, doctors say. In fact, it can be beneficial.
"Upper body exercise, especially for the arms, helps to promote the drainage of lymphatic fluid from the arms," said Ang Peng Tiam, MD, a consultant medical oncologist with Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital. "This reduces the risk of arms swelling that sometimes occurs in breast cancer patients after surgery."
Breast cancer patients who are at least 3 months out of treatment are encouraged to join the program.
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