Table 1. Clinical assessment timeline for all breast cancer patients studied.

Week	Exercise group
1	Biopsy and diagnosis meeting
	Introduction to the study and informed consent signing
	Pre-surgery assessment and randomization to groups
	Fatigue assessment; fitness assessment
2	Surgery
3	Recovery from surgery
4	Post-surgery assessment
	Fatigue assessment
5
6	Exercise intervention begins
7
8 (first dose of chemotherapy)	First assessment of fatigue during treatment
9
10
11	Second assessment of fatigue during treatment
12
13
14
15	Third assessment of fatigue during treatment
16
17
18
19
20
21	Final assessment
	Fatigue assessment; fitness assessmen