Can Pre-Treatment exercise ease breast cancer side effects?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with newly diagnosed Breast Cancer (BC) (stages 0-4) deemed eligible by the oncology physician team to undergo intent-to-cure treatment * Patients must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Scale score of 0 (Fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease performance without restriction), 1 (Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature, e.g., light house- work, office work); or 2 (Ambulatory and capable of all self-care but unable to carry out any work activities; up and about more than 50% of waking hours) * Patients must be Female \[Note: Males are not included as BC in males is less than 1% of all cases\] * Patients must be English speaking * Patients must be age ≥ 18 years * Patients must have regular access to a mobile phone that can receive text messages and phone calls * Patients must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document prior to registration on study Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with any prior malignancy (except non-melanoma skin) * Patients with an ECOG Performance Scale score of 3 (Capable of only limited self-care; confined to bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours), 4 (Completely disabled; cannot carry on any self-care; totally confined to bed or chair) or 5 (dead) * History of pre-existing upper extremity functional impairment, lymphedema, central nervous system damage, other systemic medical condition (e.g. fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes) * Actively receiving physical therapy at the time of recruitment and baseline measurement * Patients with brain metastasis with adverse events attributable to the metastasis ≥ grade 3 * Patients who are pregnant or lactating * Patients with any issue that would limit their ability to comply with study requirements