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3. World Conference on Healty Science, Aydın, Turkey, 28 April - 30 May 2016, pp.157
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of regular physical activity (step-aerobic and resistance exercise) on life quality of breast cancer patients in remission. In this study; sampling was formed by 30 breast cancer female patients aged 53.13 ± 6.45 for step aerobics (n=11), resistance (n=10) and control groups (n=9) completed anti-cancer cure in Akdeniz University, Medical Faculty Hospital in the Medical Oncology Clinic. For both exercise groups, 12 weeks (three days program in each week) special indoor and outdoor exercise programs were applied. Research ethics committee approval was taken from Akdeniz University Clinical Ethics Committee. EORTC QLQ-C30, Life Quality Scale were applied before and after each survey group. In the process of assessing data the descriptive statistic methods, Wilcoxon Test was used to determine the difference between pre and post test values Mann Whitney U Test was used to determine the difference between groups and results have been assessed according to significant level 0.05. As a result of this study, with 12 weeks regular exercise program, statistically meaningful increase was found in dimension of physical functioning, role functioning and social functioning, and decrease in dimension of fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, dyspnoea, sleep disturbance and constipation in step aerobic group, statistically increase was found in dimension of physical functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning and social functioning, and decrease in dimension of fatigue, pain and dyspnoea in step aerobic group, statistically decrease was found in dimension of physical functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning and social functioning, and nausea and vomiting in control group. Physical exercise program whether step aerobics and/or resistance exercise can be offered to increase quality of life breast cancer patients in remission.