According to a new study, the risk of getting cancer decreases later in life for women who used to engage in physical activity, when they were in their teenage. The study has been conducted by researchers from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.

The researchers examined the data of women who were having an active lifestyle for at least 1.3 hours per week when they were in their teens. They benefited as a result of this in their adult years.

There were more than 75,000 women from China, between the ages of 40 to 70-years-old, who took part in the study and the researchers examined them in relation to their activities when they were in their teens. One on one interviews were conducted by the experts, in addition to regular physical examination for three years. The participants were observed for nearly 13 years.

According to Reuters, Sarah J. Nechuta, an assistant professor of medicine and one of the authors of the study said, "The main finding is that exercise during adolescence is associated with a reduced risk of mortality, or death, in middle aged to older women. Our results support the importance of promoting exercise participation in adolescence”. Nechuta also emphasized on the requirement for the beginning of disease prevention early in life.

It was found in the study that 5,282 death cases were there among the women respondents, together with 1,620 from cardiovascular disease and 2,375 from cancer.