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Studies Support Value of Exercise in Patients at Different Stages of Cancer

Countless studies reinforce the health benefits of physical activity (PA) in patients, survivors, and healthy people alike. PA has been shown to improve certain side effects of cancer and its treatment, increase the length of survival after cancer, and prevent or curtail a variety of noncancer diagnoses. It helps manage physiologic symptoms such as pain, peripheral neuropathy, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and fatigue as well as psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression.

In their articles in the June 2012 issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, Albrecht and Taylor and Barber looked at use of PA in patients with advanced-stage cancer or in survivors. Barber also studied the role social support played in whether people participated in PA.

Exercise in Advanced-Stage Cancer
Albrecht and Taylor conducted a literature review of 16 studies to identify the best evidence for PA in patients with advanced cancer. All of the articles confirmed that PA is safe and feasible in patients with advanced cancer. One study noted that it was particularly beneficial to have a PA program leader who is familiar with patients with cancer, especially those in palliative settings, so that he or she can modify the program as patients' situations change.

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