Exercise
Doing short bursts of intense exercise during chemo for early-stage breast cancer led to better outcomes.
Just 90 minutes of moderate exercise a week seems to reduce the risk of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer coming back as metastatic disease in younger women.
If you have metastatic disease and want better sex, exercise can help.
Does just thinking about exercise make you tired? Consider this: Younger women who are more active have a lower risk of developing breast cancer.
If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, following national exercise guidelines can extend your life.
Hate to exercise? Consider this: A few minutes of vigorous exercise a day may be enough to reduce your risk of cancer.
Following cancer prevention lifestyle recommendations before, during, and after being diagnosed with high-risk breast cancer cuts the risk of recurrence and death.
Which exercise is best for cancer-related fatigue? A combination of aerobic and resistance exercise seems to help the most.
Post-menopausal women with a history of four types of cancer had a faster decline of physical function than women with no history of cancer.
Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer receiving anthracycline chemotherapy who completed a 12-month exercise program had a lower risk of functional problems and better cardiovascular health.
Post-menopausal women with a history of early-stage disease who did even moderate exercise, such as fast walking or easy cycling, reduced their risk of dying from breast cancer.
People who started an exercise program during chemotherapy had less severe side effects and got back to regular physical functioning faster than people who started exercising after completing chemotherapy.
Exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating a healthy diet may help women live longer after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Exercise helped reduce the risk of heart problems in women receiving treatment for breast cancer.
Doctors should recommend regular aerobic and resistance exercise for people receiving cancer treatment.
Previous chemotherapy treatment, more belly fat, and being less physically fit led to a lower immune response to a typhoid vaccine in women who’d been treated for breast cancer.
Not exercising and lots of sitting can be harmful for cancer survivors.
Women at high risk of arm and shoulder problems who started a physical therapist–led exercise program about a week after breast cancer surgery with no reconstruction had better upper arm mobility than women who received standard care.
People diagnosed with metastatic cancer that has spread to the bones can safely participate in supervised exercise programs, according to a review of 17 studies.
Women diagnosed with breast cancer who exercised before, during, and after chemotherapy were less likely to have chemo brain.
If a woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, her risk of being diagnosed with a second primary cancer increases as her weight increases.
A combination of exercise and mindfulness training seems better at easing fatigue in breast cancer survivors than either technique alone, according to a small study.
Doing the minimum amount of recommended exercise per week — 2.5 hours — both before and after being diagnosed with breast cancer with a high risk of recurrence is linked to better survival and a lower risk of recurrence.
The American College of Sports Medicine updated its guidelines on exercise for cancer prevention, as well as guidelines on exercise to ease a number of treatment side effects.