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Tai Chi for cancer survivors: A systematic review toward consensus‐based guidelines

To manage acute, long‐term, and late effects of cancer, current guidelines recommend moderate‐to‐vigorous intensity aerobic and resistance exercise. Unfortunately, not all cancer survivors are able or willing to perform higher intensity exercise during difficult cancer treatments or because of other...

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Autores principales: Yang, Lin, Winters‐Stone, Kerri, Rana, Benny, Cao, Chao, Carlson, Linda E., Courneya, Kerry S., Friedenreich, Christine M., Schmitz, Kathryn H.
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8559497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34533284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.4273
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author Yang, Lin
Winters‐Stone, Kerri
Rana, Benny
Cao, Chao
Carlson, Linda E.
Courneya, Kerry S.
Friedenreich, Christine M.
Schmitz, Kathryn H.
author_facet Yang, Lin
Winters‐Stone, Kerri
Rana, Benny
Cao, Chao
Carlson, Linda E.
Courneya, Kerry S.
Friedenreich, Christine M.
Schmitz, Kathryn H.
author_sort Yang, Lin
collection PubMed
description To manage acute, long‐term, and late effects of cancer, current guidelines recommend moderate‐to‐vigorous intensity aerobic and resistance exercise. Unfortunately, not all cancer survivors are able or willing to perform higher intensity exercise during difficult cancer treatments or because of other existing health conditions. Tai Chi is an equipment‐free, multicomponent mind–body exercise performed at light‐to‐moderate intensity that may provide a more feasible alternative to traditional exercise programs for some cancer survivors. This systematic review evaluated the therapeutic efficacy of Tai Chi across the cancer care continuum. We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, SCOPUS, and CINAHL databases for interventional studies from inception to 18 September 2020. Controlled trials of the effects of Tai Chi training on patient‐reported and objectively measured outcomes in cancer survivors were included. Study quality was determined by the RoB 2 tool, and effect estimates were evaluated using the Best Evidence Synthesis approach. Twenty‐six reports from 14 trials (one non‐randomized controlled trial) conducted during (n = 5) and after treatment (after surgery: n = 2; after other treatments: n = 7) were included. Low‐level evidence emerged to support the benefits of 40–60 min of thrice‐weekly supervised Tai Chi for 8–12 weeks to improve fatigue and sleep quality in cancer survivors. These findings need to be confirmed in larger trials and tested for scaling‐up potential. Insufficient evidence was available to evaluate the effects of Tai Chi on other cancer‐related outcomes. Future research should examine whether Tai Chi training can improve a broader range of cancer outcomes including during the pre‐treatment and end of life phases.
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spelling pubmed-85594972021-11-08 Tai Chi for cancer survivors: A systematic review toward consensus‐based guidelines Yang, Lin Winters‐Stone, Kerri Rana, Benny Cao, Chao Carlson, Linda E. Courneya, Kerry S. Friedenreich, Christine M. Schmitz, Kathryn H. Cancer Med Clinical Cancer Research To manage acute, long‐term, and late effects of cancer, current guidelines recommend moderate‐to‐vigorous intensity aerobic and resistance exercise. Unfortunately, not all cancer survivors are able or willing to perform higher intensity exercise during difficult cancer treatments or because of other existing health conditions. Tai Chi is an equipment‐free, multicomponent mind–body exercise performed at light‐to‐moderate intensity that may provide a more feasible alternative to traditional exercise programs for some cancer survivors. This systematic review evaluated the therapeutic efficacy of Tai Chi across the cancer care continuum. We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, SCOPUS, and CINAHL databases for interventional studies from inception to 18 September 2020. Controlled trials of the effects of Tai Chi training on patient‐reported and objectively measured outcomes in cancer survivors were included. Study quality was determined by the RoB 2 tool, and effect estimates were evaluated using the Best Evidence Synthesis approach. Twenty‐six reports from 14 trials (one non‐randomized controlled trial) conducted during (n = 5) and after treatment (after surgery: n = 2; after other treatments: n = 7) were included. Low‐level evidence emerged to support the benefits of 40–60 min of thrice‐weekly supervised Tai Chi for 8–12 weeks to improve fatigue and sleep quality in cancer survivors. These findings need to be confirmed in larger trials and tested for scaling‐up potential. Insufficient evidence was available to evaluate the effects of Tai Chi on other cancer‐related outcomes. Future research should examine whether Tai Chi training can improve a broader range of cancer outcomes including during the pre‐treatment and end of life phases. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8559497/ /pubmed/34533284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.4273 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yang, Lin
Winters‐Stone, Kerri
Rana, Benny
Cao, Chao
Carlson, Linda E.
Courneya, Kerry S.
Friedenreich, Christine M.
Schmitz, Kathryn H.
Tai Chi for cancer survivors: A systematic review toward consensus‐based guidelines
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title_short Tai Chi for cancer survivors: A systematic review toward consensus‐based guidelines
title_sort tai chi for cancer survivors: a systematic review toward consensus‐based guidelines
topic Clinical Cancer Research
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