Melinda L. Irwin

TL;DR: An updated version of the Compendium of Physical Activities, a coding scheme that classifies specific physical activity (PA) by rate of energy expenditure, is provided to enhance the comparability of results across studies using self-reports of PA.

TL;DR: The roundtable concluded that exercise training is safe during and after cancer treatments and results in improvements in physical functioning, quality of life, and cancer-related fatigue in several cancer survivor groups, sufficient for the recommendation that cancer survivors follow the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether physical activity (PA) after diagnosis declined from prediagnosis levels and whether any changes in PA varied by disease stage, adjuvant treatment, patient age, or body mass index (BMI).

TL;DR: Regular exercise such as brisk walking results in reduced body weight and body fat among overweight and obese postmenopausal women.

TL;DR: Moderate-intensity physical activity after a diagnosis of breast cancer may improve prognosis and reduce the risk of death among women with breast cancer.