Is cardiorespiratory fitness lower in women with a history of breast cancer compared to healthy women?
Women with a history of breast cancer have substantially lower cardiorespiratory fitness than healthy women, highlighting the need for normative values to guide exercise interventions and mitigate cardiovascular risk.
We found that CRF was substantially lower in women with a history of breast cancer compared with healthy women and this was most pronounced among breast cancer patients in the post-adjuvant setting. We conclude that knowledge of normative CRF values is critical to tailor appropriately timed exercise interventions in breast cancer patients susceptible to low CRF and subsequent cardiovascular risk.
Peel et al. (2014) studied this question.