Active lifestyle promotion with home-based exercise in breast cancer survivors
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Títol: | Active lifestyle promotion with home-based exercise in breast cancer survivors |
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Autors: | Mascherini, Gabriele | Giannelli, Chiara | Ghelarducci, Giulia | Degl'Innocenti, Sonia | Petri, Cristian | Galanti, Giorgio |
Paraules clau: | Physical activity | Oncology | Unsupervised exercise | Lifestyle |
Àrees de coneixement: | Educación Física y Deportiva |
Data de publicació: | 2017 |
Editor: | Universidad de Alicante. Área de Educación Física y Deporte |
Citació bibliogràfica: | Journal of Human Sport and Exercise. 2017,12(1): 119-128. doi:10.14198/jhse.2017.121.10 |
Resum: | Background: In cancer survivors, quality of life, weight management and physical activity levels are growing areas of interest, also considering such parameters may offer protection to cancer recurrence. Research question: In this study, we aimed to objectively verify whether a home-based exercise program is effective in weight management of a cohort of breast-cancer survivors. Type of study: Experimental cohort observational study. Methods: We enrolled 13 women (age 49.1±5.5, height 163±7.3 cm) and evaluated habitual physical activity levels. Afterwards we compared the baseline aerobic capacity by 6 Minutes Walking Test (6MWT), flexibility, grip and lower limbs strength and body composition, to the same parameters measured after 40 days of unsupervised exercise. Results: At baseline (T0), patients displayed a moderate level of physical activity and were overweight. After 40 days of unsupervised exercise (T1), we observed improvement of all analyzed parameters with statistical significance in waist circumference (T0=0.57±0.1 cm, T1=0.55±0.1 cm; p<0.01), distance walked in 6 MWT (T0445.4±168.1 m, T1=534.6±151.5 m; p<0.05), 30 '' Chair test (T0=14.8±5.6 rep, T1=16.3±4.9 rep; p<0.05). Conclusions: Home-based unsupervised exercise in breast-cancer survivors yielded short-term efficacy in all analyzed parameters. Efficacy at long-term and a possible effect in reducing the risk of tumor relapse remain to be elucidated in larger cohorts with longer and multidisciplinary follow up. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2017.121.10 | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/66812 |
ISSN: | 1988-5202 |
DOI: | 10.14198/jhse.2017.121.10 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Drets: | Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | http://www.jhse.ua.es/ |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2017, Vol. 12, No. 1 |
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