Key result
Appropriately prescribed exercise by physical therapists can improve aerobic fitness, muscular strength, and quality of life, and potentially reduce cancer recurrence and cancer-related death.
Appropriately prescribed exercise by physical therapists can improve fitness, strength, and quality of life, and potentially reduce cancer recurrence in oncology patients.
Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
Supports PT-prescribed exercise in geriatric oncology; hypothesis-generating for recurrence reduction, pending prospective trials.
Cancer treatments and the prevalence of other common geriatric co-morbidities can complicate exercise testing and prescription. Cancer patients may experience functional decline as a result of metastasis, osteoporosis, hematologic abnormalities, fatigue, chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy and treatment-induced cardiovascular and pulmonary toxicities. Late effects of anti-neoplastic treatment can lead to further loss of function decades later. Appropriately prescribed exercise can produce gains in aerobic fitness, muscular strength and quality of life. In addition, it can potentially prevent some types of cancer and reduce risk of cancer recurrence and cancer-related death. Physical therapists are uniquely qualified to thoroughly evaluate physical function and design individualized exercise prescriptions in the oncology patient population.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Leiserowitz et al. (2011) conducted a review in Cancer. Exercise prescription was evaluated. Appropriately prescribed exercise by physical therapists can improve aerobic fitness, muscular strength, and quality of life, and potentially reduce cancer recurrence and cancer-related death.
Synapse has enriched 10 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: