Associations of pre-diagnosis physical activity with treatment tolerance and treatment efficacy in breast cancer patients with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Dan LinKathleen M SturgeonJoshua E MuscatShouhao ZhouAndrea L HobkirkKatie M O'BrienDale P SandlerCheryl L ThompsonPublished in: Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) (2024)
Although small sample size and limited information on exercise closer to time of diagnosis limit interpretation, pre-diagnosis PA was not convincingly associated with treatment tolerance or treatment efficacy in BCa patients receiving NACT. Future investigations are needed to better understand the impact of pre-diagnosis PA on BCa treatment.