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Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck
As chemotherapeutic, radiation, and surgical techniques have improved, there has been a dramatic improvement in survival in patients diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck. As a result, a heightened focus on survivorship by clinicians will increasingly prove necessary. In particular, medical ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200602 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29020103 |
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author | Nehlsen, Anthony D. Sindhu, Kunal K. Jones, Brianna M. Lehrer, Eric J. Rowley, Jared P. Bakst, Richard L. |
author_facet | Nehlsen, Anthony D. Sindhu, Kunal K. Jones, Brianna M. Lehrer, Eric J. Rowley, Jared P. Bakst, Richard L. |
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description | As chemotherapeutic, radiation, and surgical techniques have improved, there has been a dramatic improvement in survival in patients diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck. As a result, a heightened focus on survivorship by clinicians will increasingly prove necessary. In particular, medical care teams will have to pay special attention to mitigating the long-term sequelae of definitive cancer treatments, many of which act as barriers to exercise. This is unfortunate, as the benefits of exercise in patients with cancer have become increasingly recognized. In this review, we discuss the potential benefits of and barriers to exercise in survivors of cancers of the head and neck. We also review existing exercise guidelines and strategies by which clinicians can promote exercise in this unique patient population. |
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spelling | pubmed-88706672022-02-25 Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck Nehlsen, Anthony D. Sindhu, Kunal K. Jones, Brianna M. Lehrer, Eric J. Rowley, Jared P. Bakst, Richard L. Curr Oncol Review As chemotherapeutic, radiation, and surgical techniques have improved, there has been a dramatic improvement in survival in patients diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck. As a result, a heightened focus on survivorship by clinicians will increasingly prove necessary. In particular, medical care teams will have to pay special attention to mitigating the long-term sequelae of definitive cancer treatments, many of which act as barriers to exercise. This is unfortunate, as the benefits of exercise in patients with cancer have become increasingly recognized. In this review, we discuss the potential benefits of and barriers to exercise in survivors of cancers of the head and neck. We also review existing exercise guidelines and strategies by which clinicians can promote exercise in this unique patient population. MDPI 2022-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8870667/ /pubmed/35200602 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29020103 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Nehlsen, Anthony D. Sindhu, Kunal K. Jones, Brianna M. Lehrer, Eric J. Rowley, Jared P. Bakst, Richard L. Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck |
title | Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck |
title_full | Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck |
title_fullStr | Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck |
title_full_unstemmed | Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck |
title_short | Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck |
title_sort | moving beyond definitive therapy: increasing physical activity in survivors of cancers of the head and neck |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200602 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29020103 |
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