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"Excercise helps overweight women beat breast cancer"
« on: September 11, 2006, 04:30:47 PM »
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Moderate exercise during the year before a breast cancer diagnosis appears to improve overweight women's chances of surviving, researchers say.

Exercise has been shown to help prevent breast cancer, but researchers haven't studied the role it plays in a patient's prognosis as much as they have studied factors such as tumour size.

Page Abrahamson, a postdoctoral researcher, and her team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle analyzed data on 1,264 women aged 20 to 54 who were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer between 1990 and 1992.

Breast cancer is considered to be a disease that is influenced by hormone levels.

The risk of developing breast cancer also rises with the amount of adult weight a woman packs on.

It's thought that since exercise burns body fat, it also lowers the levels of hormones such as estrogen and, therefore, the risk of developing breast cancer.

The benefits of exercise were found in women with a body mass index of 25 or higher, the cut-off point for being considered overweight.

Obese and overweight participants who had higher levels of moderate or vigorous physical activity within a year before diagnosis tended to have better five-year survival rates compared those who didn't, the researchers said.

"Given that obesity is relatively well established as a poor prognostic factor in breast cancer, it is hopeful that activity may provide an opportunity to improve survival in this sub-population," the study's authors concluded in the Oct. 15 issue of the journal Cancer.

Women in the highest 25 per cent for activity level were 21 per cent more likely to survive than those in the bottom quarter.

Women of ideal body weight did not experience survival benefits from exercise, in this study, but a previous study did suggest it may help for this group as well.

Physical activity in adolescence or early adulthood seemed to have no effect on survival, but the researchers did not take a detailed look at lifelong exercise. Participants were only asked about their physical activity at ages 13-20 and the year before diagnosis.

Honestly, is it really news that excercise is good for you? How can this surprise anyone?
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"Excercise helps overweight women beat breast cancer"
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2006, 04:34:16 PM »
Well I know one woman that was as active a fit as could be....She died last year from a recurrence of cancer.

Quit spending money on the stupid crap and find a frikin cure.:mad:
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"Excercise helps overweight women beat breast cancer"
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2006, 05:16:39 PM »
Humans should remember, we are made for exercise,
the whole Humans body!
You dont use it for was it is made? accept failure.
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"Excercise helps overweight women beat breast cancer"
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2006, 05:19:52 PM »
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Originally posted by RedTop
Well I know one woman that was as active a fit as could be....She died last year from a recurrence of cancer.

Quit spending money on the stupid crap and find a frikin cure.:mad:


sorry to hear this RedTop
if she was such active person, then only god knows why she have to left us.
sorry.
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"Excercise helps overweight women beat breast cancer"
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2006, 05:21:40 PM »
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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
Humans should remember, we are made for exercise,
the whole Humans body!
You dont use it for was it is made? accept failure.


I was going to post some witty comeback to this.....but why bother.

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Active Women die from Breast cancer.
Over weight women die from Breat cancer.
Women who exercise and stay in shape die from breast cancer.

I would imagine you don't know jackcrap about Breast cancer. So...you opinion about people exercising or not and failing if they don't means S***.

I know a man who died 6 months out of retirment from pancreatic cancer. He was a health nut. Exercised..ate right..took great care of himself. So that blows your theroy right out of the water.

My Mom died almost 1 year ago. She had breast cancer and was in great shape. She exercised...ate right....was a very healthy woman when she found out she had it. After all the Chemo and radiation and surgery...she was found to be cancer free. 9 years later still exercising and eating right she found out she had it again. This time no hope. So again...your theroy is blown up.

I would suggest before you make such a BOLD statement about people you check out some facts.

My wife and I spent 3 years with my Mom before she died. The last 18 months of her life was spent in my home where she lived until she died in my bedroom from Cancer.
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Re: "Excercise helps overweight women beat breast cancer"
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2006, 07:04:07 PM »
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Honestly, is it really news that excercise is good for you? How can this surprise anyone?
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2006, 07:21:37 PM »
There was a recent study done on women over 10 years that found out that the amount exercised or eating right had no affect on the rates of heart disease and cancers.


Of course since our economy was so focused on healthy living, the article was hidden and never really got any airtime.
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