IL6 and cancer: Other studies demonstrated that resistant exercise on the animal cancer model mitigates tumor growth, tumor grade, viable tumor area, tumor cell proliferation, and myofiber atrophy-causing cancer cachexia via attenuating some key markers such as TNF-α, IL-6, Atrogin1, and oxidative damage (Padilha et al., 2019; Padilha et al., 2021).