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Doing Exercise Helps To Prevent Breast Cancer.

The prestigious journal ‘Gynaecologic Oncology’ has recently published a study conducted by a group of Spanish researchers.

This study showed that 13.8% of all breast cancers could have been prevented if people followed the recommendations made by international health organisations in regards to exercise; these recommendations being, to complete a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate physical exercise per week.

The study also determined that sedentary women had a 71% increased risk of suffering breast cancer than those that completed physical exercise, as well as finding that those who benefited more were premenopausal women and women that did not have children; however postmenopausal women would have to do more exercise to obtain the same health benefits.

Hormone-dependent subtypes of breast cancer were the ones found to have benefited most as well as those corresponding to the HER2 subtype, where is the subtype that the majority of breast cancers belong to.

The researchers also highlighted that physical exercise is not only beneficial to prevent breast cancer but it is also beneficial to those that are suffering from it; however, the latter of these two should always do so under controlled medical supervision.