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Diet and exercise key to surviving breast cancer, regardless of obesity, new UCSD study says
06-08-2007 · EurekAlert!Breast cancer survivors who eat a healthy diet and exercise moderately can reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by half, regardless of their weight, suggests a new longitudinal study from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego.
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