In the authors' words
“For women with breast cancer, CT significantly enhances cardiorespiratory fitness, alleviates cancer-related fatigue, and improves QoL.”
What was measured
- Fitness Reported an improvement
- Fatigue Reported an improvement
- Quality of life Reported an improvement
- Mood Mixed results
About the study
- Type
- Meta-analysis
- Who took part
- Midlife women, breast cancer survivors
- How many
- 2,071
- Exercise
- Aerobic plus resistance
- Cited
- 2 times, per Europe PMC
- PubMed ID
- 38970716
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