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Breast Cancer
Home-based intervention increases survivors' physical activity
June 23rd, 2005
Behavioral medicine specialists say that breast cancer survivors who receive weekly phone calls and direct mail promoting physical activity are likely to be more physically active and experience improved psychological outcomes. In a study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital and Brown University Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island, looked at whether women who had been treated for early-stage breast cancer could adopt a home-based physical activity program and monitored the effects it would have on their fitness, mood, physical symptoms,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-23)
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