Slow hands, quiet nights? Tai chi and a matched exercise class nudged sleep about equally in older men after cancer

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A study of older men recovering from cancer treatment found that tai chi and a matched exercise class improved sleep by about the same amount. Sleep disturbances are common after primary cancer treatment, while behavioral-treatment research has historically focused more on women with breast cancer.

Sleep disturbances affect up to 60% of people after primary cancer treatment, and they are often waved away as the price of treatment, or of age. For older men in particular, science has had little to offer. Most research on behavioral treatments for insomnia has studied women with breast cancer.