Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments
Cancer patients experience symptoms and adverse effects of treatments that may last even after the end of treatments. Exercise is a safe, non-pharmacological and cost-effective therapy that can provide several health benefits in cancer patient and survivors, reducing cancer symptoms and cancer treat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29568412 http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24456 |
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author | Ferioli, Martina Zauli, Giorgio Martelli, Alberto M. Vitale, Marco McCubrey, James A. Ultimo, Simona Capitani, Silvano Neri, Luca M. |
author_facet | Ferioli, Martina Zauli, Giorgio Martelli, Alberto M. Vitale, Marco McCubrey, James A. Ultimo, Simona Capitani, Silvano Neri, Luca M. |
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description | Cancer patients experience symptoms and adverse effects of treatments that may last even after the end of treatments. Exercise is a safe, non-pharmacological and cost-effective therapy that can provide several health benefits in cancer patient and survivors, reducing cancer symptoms and cancer treatment side effects. The purpose of this review is to describe how the physical exercise is capable to reduce cancer symptoms and cancer treatment side effects. We realized a pragmatic classification of symptoms, dividing them into physical, psychological and psycho-physical aspects. For each symptom we discuss causes, therapies, we analyse the effects of physical exercise and we summarize the most effective type of exercise to reduce the symptoms. This review also points out what are the difficulties that patients and survivors face during the practice of physical activity and provides some solutions to overcome these barriers. Related to each specific cancer, it emerges that type, frequency and intensity of physical exercise could be prescribed and supervised as a therapeutic program, like it occurs for the type, dose and duration of a drug treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-58626332018-03-22 Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments Ferioli, Martina Zauli, Giorgio Martelli, Alberto M. Vitale, Marco McCubrey, James A. Ultimo, Simona Capitani, Silvano Neri, Luca M. Oncotarget Review Cancer patients experience symptoms and adverse effects of treatments that may last even after the end of treatments. Exercise is a safe, non-pharmacological and cost-effective therapy that can provide several health benefits in cancer patient and survivors, reducing cancer symptoms and cancer treatment side effects. The purpose of this review is to describe how the physical exercise is capable to reduce cancer symptoms and cancer treatment side effects. We realized a pragmatic classification of symptoms, dividing them into physical, psychological and psycho-physical aspects. For each symptom we discuss causes, therapies, we analyse the effects of physical exercise and we summarize the most effective type of exercise to reduce the symptoms. This review also points out what are the difficulties that patients and survivors face during the practice of physical activity and provides some solutions to overcome these barriers. Related to each specific cancer, it emerges that type, frequency and intensity of physical exercise could be prescribed and supervised as a therapeutic program, like it occurs for the type, dose and duration of a drug treatment. Impact Journals LLC 2018-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5862633/ /pubmed/29568412 http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24456 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Ferioli et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Ferioli, Martina Zauli, Giorgio Martelli, Alberto M. Vitale, Marco McCubrey, James A. Ultimo, Simona Capitani, Silvano Neri, Luca M. Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
title | Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
title_full | Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
title_fullStr | Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
title_short | Impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
title_sort | impact of physical exercise in cancer survivors during and after antineoplastic treatments |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29568412 http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24456 |
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