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(HealthDay News) -- Pumping iron a couple times a week can help breast-cancer survivors look and feel better, new research suggests.
The study is one of the first to focus on weight training to improve quality of life in breast-cancer survivors, although numerous other studies have found some positive effects from physical aerobic exercise such as walking.
The results were released online Monday, and will be in the May print issue of Cancer.
Breast-cancer survivors often struggle with a variety of quality-of-life complaints, including insomnia, weight gain, chronic fatigue, depression and anxiety.
To see if weight training might help
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