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ArticleJournal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention

Exercise-based oncology rehabilitation: leveraging the cardiac rehabilitation model.

Kim L Dittus, Susan G Lakoski, Patrick D Savage, Nathan Kokinda, Michael Toth, Diane Stevens, Kimberly Woods, Patricia OʼBrien, Philip A Ades

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Article in Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06540495 (Virtual Personalized Exercise Program for Subjects With Lung Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06540495 narecruitingnot on this map

Virtual Personalized Exercise Program for Subjects With Lung Cancer: a Feasibility Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorNorthwell HealthRan2024 to 2025Enrolled60ConditionsLung CancerArmsSalaso Virtual Exercise Program
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Feasibility and Outcomes of an Exercise Intervention for Chemotherapy-Induced Heart Failure.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention · 2019
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  8. Oncology Rehabilitation in Australia: A National Survey Update.Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology · 2026
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  13. The Psychosocial Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Cancer Survivors.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention · 2025
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  15. Cardio-oncology rehabilitation: are we ready?European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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  20. Bridging the gap: a pre-post feasibility study of embedding exercise therapy into a co-located cancer unit.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Kim L DittusDepartment of Internal Medicine, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, (Drs Dittus, Lakoski, and Ades), Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science (Mr Kokinda), Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (Dr Toth), and Department of Internal Medicine (Dr O'Brien), University of Vermont, Burlington; and Fletcher Allen Health Care (Mr Savage, Ms Stevens, and Ms Woods).
Susan G Lakoski
Patrick D Savage
Nathan Kokinda
Michael Toth
Diane Stevens
Kimberly Woods
Patricia OʼBrien
Philip A Ades

Funding

Vermont Center on Behavior and HealthP20GM103644 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI SIGMON, STACEY C · 2013 to 2022
$21.3M
Muscle disuse and contractile dysfunction in the elderlyR01AG033547 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI TOTH, MICHAEL J · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS AG033547NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033547NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103644NIGMS NIH HHS P20GM103644
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe value of exercise and rehabilitative interventions for cancer survivors is increasingly clear, and oncology rehabilitation programs could provide these important interventions. However, a pathway to create oncology rehabilitation has not been delineated. Community-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs staffed by health care professionals with experience in providing rehabilitation and secondary prevention services to individuals with coronary heart disease are widely available and provide a potential model and location for oncology rehabilitation programs. Our purpose was to outline the rehabilitative needs of cancer survivors and demonstrate how oncology rehabilitation can be created using a CR model.

methodsWe identify the impairments associated with cancer and its therapy that respond to rehabilitative interventions. Components of the CR model that would benefit cancer survivors are described. An example of an oncology rehabilitation program using a CR model is presented.

resultsCancer survivors have impairments associated with cancer and its therapy that improve with rehabilitation. Our experience demonstrates that effective rehabilitation services can be provided utilizing an existing CR infrastructure. Few adjustments to current CR models would be needed to provide oncology rehabilitation. Preliminary evidence suggests that cancer survivors participating in an oncology rehabilitation program experience improvements in psychological and physiologic parameters.

conclusionsUtilizing the CR model of rehabilitative services and disease management provides a much needed mechanism to bring oncology rehabilitation to larger numbers of cancer survivors.

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Cardiac RehabilitationExercise TherapyModels, TheoreticalHumansNeoplasmsQuality of LifeSurvivors

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PMID25407596
PMCPMC4342296

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