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For women who've had cancer and gone through menopause, exercising hard for about an hour a day helps lower their risk of dying — but doing more than that doesn't seem to help much extra.

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Accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behavior, and mortality among cancer survivors: the Women’s Health Accelerometry Collaboration

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2025 Apr 30

The study found that for women who survived cancer, getting about 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a day gave the most benefit for overall survival and heart health, and doing more than that didn't significantly increase those benefits.

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Accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behavior, and mortality among cancer survivors: the Women’s Health Accelerometry Collaboration

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DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkaf034

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