Exercise can lower breast cancer risk

A new study has confirmed that for most women, six or more hours of strenuous exercise each week can reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer. While women with a family history of breast cancer didnt have a reduced risk with exercise, all of the other women did, regardless of how old they were when they started exercising.

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