Moderate exercise delays time to breast cancer recurrence

https://www.facingourrisk.org/XRAY/moderate-exercise-delays-breast-cancer-recurrence

Full article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11361355/

For premenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer, physical activity may increase the time before cancer returns and spreads. In this study, people with hormone receptor-negative (HR-negative) breast cancer benefited from moderate exercise—more than those with hormone receptor-positive (HR-positive) breast cancer. This study found that outcomes improved when weekly exercise time was between 90 minutes and 5 hours. (Posted 11/14/24)

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