Exercise in rehabilitation of patients with breast cancer

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) patients receiving multicomponent cancer therapy have an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and com-plications. A promising approach to reducing cardiovascular risk (CVR) in these patients is cardiac rehabilitation programs based on regular exercises. As in general population, counseling for exercise in BC patients is not widely used in clinical practice and causes difficulties for health care professionals. Probably, this is due to insufficient awareness of physicians about the importance of exercise in reducing CVR. This review will focus on the main effects of exercise on cardiovascular system, symptoms associated with cancer, cardiovascular, cancer-related and all-cause mortality in patients with BC.