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Published in: Current Nutrition Reports 1/2014

01-03-2014 | Cancer (MF Leitzmann, Section Editor)

The Association Between Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Recurrence and Survival

Authors: Nancy Urbscheit, Kent Brown

Published in: Current Nutrition Reports | Issue 1/2014

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Abstract

Recreational physical activity improves the prognosis of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Numerous studies reveal that the level of prediagnostic recreational physical activity has a linear relationship with survival after diagnosis. Risk of recurrence of cancer also drops in women who exercised prediagnosis. Women who continue or start exercising after diagnosis also receive a significant protective benefit from mortality and recurrence. However, the physiological mechanisms of and the influence of menopause on these prognostic benefits have yet to be clearly defined.
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Metadata
Title
The Association Between Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Recurrence and Survival
Authors
Nancy Urbscheit
Kent Brown
Publication date
01-03-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Nutrition Reports / Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 2161-3311
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-013-0067-x

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