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Breast Cancer
Reports outline breast cancer study findings from University of Alberta
April 10th, 2008
According to a study from Edmonton, Canada, " Exercise adherence is a challenge for breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy but few studies have identified the key barriers. In this paper, we report the barriers to supervised exercise in breast cancer patients participating in a randomized controlled trial." " Breast cancer patients initiating adjuvant chemotherapy (N=242) were randomly assigned to usual care (n=82) or supervised resistance (n=82) or aerobic (n=78) exercise. Participants randomized to the two exercise groups (n=160) were asked to provide a reason for each missed exercise session. The two exercise groups attended 70.2% (5,495/7,829) of their...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-04-10)
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