Risks and benefits of physical activity among breast cancer survivors who have completed treatment

Women's Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-238

  Schmitz, Kathryn H ^a   Speck, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm; Exercise; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRASTUZUMAB;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANEMIA; ANXIETY; ARM SWELLING; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE PAIN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; COGNITION; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INSOMNIA; JOINT FUNCTION; LEG SWELLING; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TOXICITY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURY; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SIDE EFFECT; SINUSITIS; SKIN IRRITATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STOMACH PAIN; SWEATING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED STATES; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VAGINAL PRURITUS; WEIGHT GAIN; YOGA;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EXERCISE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77649331092     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.10.1     Document Type: Review

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