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The Association Between Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Recurrence and Survival

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