lowering risk of recurrence of TNBC - exercise & tea

moth

many of the other studies seemed to show exercise benefits mostly for ER+ cancers but this one found an impact on TNBC. As well, tea consumption - & most specifically it seemed to be green tea that had the most benefit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586952/

"Modifiable lifestyle factors and triple-negative breast cancer survival: a population-based prospective study.

Women with higher exercise-metabolic equivalent(MET) scores (≥7.6 MET-hours/wk) and longer duration of exercise (≥2.5 h/wk) had lower risk of total and recurrence/disease-specific mortality than did non-exercisers. Compared with non-tea drinkers, survival was better among women who were regular tea drinkers during the first 60 months ..."

santabarbarian

And if you don't like green tea that much you can take the active ingredient in capsule form: EGCG.

HappyAnyway

Thanks to both of you. Seems like a simple addition that certainly won't hurt.