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Apologies @melclarity. @Harlee could you provide a link to the study that supports your statement?

"If you have a group of 100 people with breast cancer who exercise and a group of 100 people with similar cancers who don't exercise there will be less people in the exercise group who have a recurrence - that has been proven."

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@Patti J yes i agree seem to go over the same thing but nobody listens. I agree with everything you said x

@melclarity. We seem to go over the same thing time and again. 
I know for sure that NO amount of exercise or diet could have prevented me from a recurrence. 
My first diagnosis was when I  was  47. I had never had a mammogram. I was neither a young woman nor an old woman. To this day I  have never had a free mammogram.
I have had Tamoxifen for 5 years and now have metastatic breast cancer.
I am very fit. I used to run but don't now because of the damage done by AC chemo.
My diet has not changed in years. I am very careful about what I  eat.
So, @Harlee tell me what I  could have done to avoid a recurrence?

@traveltext it's not @melclarity making the statement 

@traveltext you mean @Harlee who said that. 

I  am pro exercise obviously @harlee hasnt read everything ive ever said. I exercise  so not sure what you are on about. The thing is you missed the point completelly. 

@melclarity could you provide a link to the study that supports your statement?

"If you have a group of 100 people with breast cancer who exercise and a group of 100 people with similar cancers who don't exercise there will be less people in the exercise group who have a recurrence - that has been proven."

@melclarity I'm sorry I know this upsets you but I do believe that the exercise message is very important. 

When we are speaking about the risk of recurrence we are speaking about the population risk - that is what happens to a group of 100, or 1000, or 1 million people. Currently we can't predict whether an individual will have a recurrence or not. We are getting closer but we aren't there yet. 
For an individual you either have a recurrence or you don't. There is no inbetween - it's not like you can get a percentage of a tumour!?
But for a group there is a percentage risk because you can measure how many per hundred have a recurrence. 
If you have a group of 100 people with breast cancer who exercise and a group of 100 people with similar cancers who don't exercise there will be less people in the exercise group who have a recurrence - that has been proven.
This means that SOME people in the group will have avoided a recurrence by exercising. It does not mean that if you exercise you won't have a recurrence because sadly there will still be people in the exercise group who have a recurrence - as you have experienced.

This same principle applies to all our adjuvant treatments - radiation, chemo, hormone therapy - it has been proven that these treatments will reduce the risk of recurrence but none of them eliminate it completely. Otherwise, as you say, there would be no recurrences. 

I understand that for you - your recurrence was 100% - it happened to you and nothing you did (and I know that you did everything you could) stopped it. But in a group of 100 people like yourself - some of them would not have had a recurrence and that is why we say that the risk is reduced. 

I do wish it could be more more clear so that people like yourself don't feel that they are being blamed.

Sorry my recurrence was not reduced by diet or exercise....oncologist verified as did Breast Surgeon. So be careful what you believe will reduce a risk when its DNA and not something we can control clearly as nobody would get it at alll.