Exercising Our ABC's (African- American Breast Cancer Survivors)

Recent studies have shown that some behavioral factors such as physical activity and exercise may improve quality of life and outcome in patients with breast cancer as well as decrease body fat, increase lean mass and reduce cancer-promoting hormones. None of these studies have been performed in African-American women with breast cancer. The medical field needs to understand how exercise may benefit cancer patients, particularly African Americans, and how to optimize these benefits to improve the quality of life, prognosis and survival.