Bigger breasts, lack of exercise tied to breast cancer mortality

If a woman develops breast cancer, having larger breasts and being sedentary might increase her risk of dying from the disease, a large, long-term study suggests. The new study looked at how both exercise and breast size might predict survival if breast cancer does develop, said study researcher Paul Williams, a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, Calif. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Williams PT (2013) Breast Cancer Mortality vs. Exercise and Breast Size in Runners and Walkers. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80616.