SWHR sponsors Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Yale University, and Brigham and women's Hospital study on exercise and breast cancer

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The society for women's health research (SWHR) is a partnership with Susan G. Komen for the cure ® to promote, to study the connection between exercise and breast cancer research.

"I am pleased to announce SWHR's to study $1,000,000 award from Susan G. Komen for the cure ®, which financed Dr. Jennifer Ligibel of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Melinda Irwin of Yale University, and Dr. Deborah Dillon of Brigham and women's Hospital, the benefits of exercise to breast cancer" said Phyllis Green's, MSW, President and CEO of SWHR. "It is our hope that this research useful measures women increase their chance of survival, if diagnosed with this devastating disease."

Previous studies have consistently shown that moderate amounts of exercise reduces breast cancer incidence in women. "Develop observational evidence that women who exercise are less likely to breast cancer, and several recent reports show also lower prices range of breast cancer recurrence in women after the diagnosis," said Dana-Farber investigator Jennifer Ligibel, MD. "is little, but about the biological mechanisms known through the exercise of breast-cancer risk reduce and improve results could." "With this project we hope some light on the way through the exercise could affect breast cancer."

To understand, using interdisciplinary approaches and methods from the basic and clinical research requires the effects of exercise on biological mechanisms. "We are thrilled to bring together a network of experts in the field, which will include oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, epidemiologists and behavioural scientist." Through the formation of a trans-disciplinary team of scientists, we use an innovative design and "Yale University Melinda Irwin, PhD said methods to examine how exercise impact breast cancer risk and repetition."

Breast cancer is still the most common cancer in women in the United States and accounts for around 40,000 deaths each year despite a decline in the incidence rates due to the early detection and existing therapies. Exercise new promises an alternative low-cost, non-medical treatment option for women breast cancer diagnosed leads to improved quality of life.

"If this research can demonstrate that physical activity leads to changes in these or other biological pathways, this would help provide important basic information, which have links to breast cancer," said President Komen Elizabeth Thompson. "This information risk could then develop both direct future research and policy for millions of breast cancer survivors and women for the development of the disease used be."

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