Many breast cancer survivors experience persistent physical symptoms of cancer and treatment that can decrease health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This prospective study investigated physical activity (PA), occurrence of physical symptoms, and HRQOL in a large, ethnically-diverse cohort of breast cancer survivors. Survivors (n∈=∈545), on average 6 months post-diagnosis, were assessed in person or by mail at baseline (retrospective reports of pre-diagnosis PA), at 29 months post-diagnosis (post-diagnosis PA), and at 39 months post-diagnosis (pain, hormone symptoms, sexual interest/dysfunction, fatigue, physical subscales of HRQOL). Linear regression and analysis of covariance assessed the relationships between pre- and post-diagnosis PA and PA change after cancer with symptoms and HRQOL. Greater pre-diagnosis PA was associated with better physical functioning at 39 months (βs 1.1-2.3; all p∈
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Alfano, C. M., Smith, A. W., Irwin, M. L., Bowen, D. J., Sorensen, B., Reeve, B. B., … McTiernan, A. (2007). Physical activity, long-term symptoms, and physical health-related quality of life among breast cancer survivors: A prospective analysis. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 1(2), 116–128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-007-0014-1
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