Exercise and Diet Counseling Program in Improving Quality of Life in Stage I-III Breast Cancer Survivors

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the feasibility of delivering a community-based, comprehensive lifestyle weight management (LWM) intervention to 20 overweight or obese breast cancer (BC) survivors. II. Explore preliminary efficacy of the community-based, comprehensive LWM intervention for producing meaningful improvements in select clinically-relevant anthropometric, fitness, functional, and patient-reported outcomes in BC survivors. III. Provide the effect size estimates necessary to inform the design of a subsequent R01 application addressing a large scale, optimally powered, randomized controlled, community-based LWM comparative efficacy intervention trial targeting weight loss in BC survivors. OUTLINE: Patients undergo aerobic exercise over 10-30 minutes and resistance exercise comprising 1-3 sets of 8-12 repetitions of 10 different exercises over 1 hour for 24 weeks. Patients also receive behavioral activity counseling once a week and nutritional counseling over 30 minutes for 10 sessions after center-based exercise sessions during months 1-2. After completion of study, patients are followed up at 3 and 6 months.