ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2011
Recreational physical activity and ovarian cancer risk and survival.
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- Associations between Physical Activity and Liver Cancer Risks and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Nonoccupational physical activity and risk of ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014Pooled it
- Physical activity, biomarkers, and disease outcomes in cancer survivors: a systematic review.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2012Pooled it
- Lifestyle intervention in ovarian cancer enhanced survival (LIVES) study (NRG/GOG0225): Recruitment, retention and baseline characteristics of a randomized trial of diet and physical activity in ovarian cancer survivors.Gynecologic oncology · 2023Trial
- Efficacy of a 4-Week Nurse-Led Exercise Rehabilitation Program in Improving the Quality of Life in Women Receiving a Post-Mastectomy Reconstruction Using the Motiva ErgonomixInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Leisure-time physical activity after diagnosis and survival by cancer type: a pooled analysis.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2025Article
- Timing of depression in relation to risk of ovarian cancer.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2025Article
- Long-Term Exposure to Walkable Residential Neighborhoods and Risk of Obesity-Related Cancer in the New York University Women's Health Study (NYUWHS).Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Prevention of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2023Review
- Nurse-led consultations reinforced with eHealth technology: a qualitative study of the experiences of patients with gynecological cancer.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- Prediagnosis and postdiagnosis leisure time physical activity and survival following diagnosis with ovarian cancer.International journal of cancer · 2021Article
- Physical Activity and Mortality in Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2020Article
- Habitual recreational physical activity is associated with significantly improved survival in cancer patients: evidence from the Roswell Park Data Bank and BioRepository.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2019Article
- Ovarian cancer in the world: epidemiology and risk factors.International journal of women's health · 2019Article
- Longitudinal assessment of post-surgical physical activity in endometrial and ovarian cancer patients.PloS one · 2019Observational
- Recreational physical activity and survival in African-American women with ovarian cancer.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2018Article
- Epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a review.Cancer biology & medicine · 2017Article
- Chronic Recreational Physical Inactivity and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Risk: Evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2016Review
- Recreational physical activity and ovarian cancer risk in African American women.Cancer medicine · 2016Article
- Epithelial ovarian cancer and recreational physical activity: A review of the epidemiological literature and implications for exercise prescription.Gynecologic oncology · 2015Review
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Abstract
purposePhysical activity may influence ovarian cancer risk and outcomes through effects on ovulation, inflammatory markers, and other processes. We examined associations between self-reported physical activity and ovarian cancer risk and survival in a population-based, case-control study in North Carolina.
methodsThe analyses involved 638 epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 683 controls recruited between 1999-2008. Logistic regression analyses were used to assess ovarian cancer risk in relation to reported average physical activity at various time periods. Kaplan-Meier analyses and proportional hazards modeling were used to assess associations between physical activity and survival among ovarian cancer cases.
resultsModestly reduced risks for ovarian cancer were observed in some categories of physical activity, but there were no consistent patterns of greater reductions in risk with higher activity levels. Physical activity before diagnosis was not significantly related to ovarian cancer survival overall, but survival was better for women who reported greater than 2 hours of activity/week as compared to those reporting less than 1 hour/week among women who were non-obese (multivariable Hazard ratio = 0.69, 95% confidence interval: 0.47-1.00).
conclusionsOur data provide weak evidence in support of beneficial effects of physical activity on ovarian cancer risk and survival, but results should be interpreted cautiously because of the lack of a clear dose response relation with higher levels of exercise and the likely misclassification of self-reported activity.
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