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June 27, 2016 03:03 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SxFbGsCZ8Ts/can-losing-weight-help-breast.html
Can losing weight help breast cancer patients survive? Fitbit joins study to find out.
Scientists are recruiting thousands of women for a large clinical trial to find out if weight loss should be prescribed as a treatment for breast cancer in some patients.
The trial will put obese and overweight women who are 18 and older and recently diagnosed with breast cancer on diets and track exercise to see if losing a little weight could help prevent a cancer recurrence.
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