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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 24, Pages 3958-3964Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.15.9822
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- NCI NIH HHS [T32 CA09661, N01-PC-67010, N01-CN-75036-20, N01-CN-05228] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [M01-RR-00037, M01-RR-0997] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose To investigate the association between pre- and postdiagnosis physical activity ( as well as change in prediagnosis to postdiagnosis physical activity) and mortality among women with breast cancer. Patients and Methods This was a prospective observational study of 933 women enrolled onto the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle Study who were diagnosed with local or regional breast cancer between 1995 and 1998 and observed until death or September 2004, whichever came first. The primary outcomes measured were total deaths and breast cancer deaths. The primary exposures were physical activity in the year before and 2 years after diagnosis and the pre- to postdiagnosis change in physical activity. Results Compared with inactive women, the multivariable hazard ratios (HRs) for total deaths for women expending at least 9 metabolic equivalent hours per week ( approximately 2 to 3 h/wk of brisk walking) were 0.69 ( 95% Cl, 0.45 to 1.06; P = .045) for those active in the year before diagnosis and 0.33 (95% Cl, 0.15 to 0.73; P = .046) for those active 2 years after diagnosis. Compared with women who were inactive both before and after diagnosis, women who increased physical activity after diagnosis had a 45% lower risk of death (HR = 0.55; 95% Cl, 0.22 to 1.38), and women who decreased physical activity after diagnosis had a four-fold greater risk of death (HR = 3.95; 95% Cl, 1.45 to 10.50). Conclusion Moderate-intensity physical activity after a diagnosis of breast cancer may improve prognosis.
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