Breast Cancer

Increased physical activity reduces women's disease risk by 20%

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 29th, 2003

Increased physical activity, even when begun later in life, reduces overall breast cancer risk by 20% among women at all levels of risk for the disease, according to a study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.

Their findings appeared in the September 10, 2003, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

What's more, the activity need not be strenuous but it should be done consistently, such as taking a brisk, 30-minute walk 5 days a week, said lead investigator Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD, a member of Fred Hutchinson's Public Health Sciences Division and director of the center's...

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