VIDEO: ‘Provocative early findings’ show exercise may impact breast cancer outcomes
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Researchers reported beneficial effects of a supervised exercise intervention on breast cancer outcomes, according to preliminary findings from the OptiTrain trial presented at ESMO Congress.
Previously, the study showed that patients undergoing chemotherapy who were randomized to the high-intensity resistance interval training had significant improvements in fatigue, Jennifer Ligibel, MD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, told Healio in a video interview.
In the update presented at ESMO, preliminary findings suggested that patients randomly assigned to the resistance training program “may have had lower rates of overall mortality and lower rates of breast cancer events,” according to Ligibel.
“More to be done, but really some very provocative early findings that exercise could not only help people feel better and mitigate the side effects of cancer treatment, but could actually have an impact on the disease itself,” she said.
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