Trial reportJournal of cancer survivorship : research and practice2015
Exercise training intensity prescription in breast cancer survivors: validity of current practice and specific recommendations.
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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.
Progressive Resistance Training vs. Relaxation for Breast Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Intervention Trial to Evaluate the Biological Mechanisms and Effects of Resistance Training on Fatigue and Quality of Life
Effects of a Supervised Progressive Resistance Training With Breast Cancer Patients During Adjuvant Radiotherapy - A Randomised Controlled Intervention Trial
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparative Efficacy of Different Exercise Therapies for Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- The optimal exercise modality and intensity for hemodialysis patients incorporating Bayesian network meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- High-intensity interval training in the prehabilitation of cancer patients-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Pooled it
- High-intensity interval training in the therapy and aftercare of cancer patients: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2019Pooled it
- Targeting Exercise Interventions to Patients With Cancer in Need: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2018Pooled it
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- An exercise trial to reduce cancer related fatigue in African American breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy: Design, rationale, and methods.Contemporary clinical trials · 2016Trial
- Biofeedback-Based Proprioceptive Training to Improve Functional Prerequisites of Dragon Boating in Breast Cancer Survivors.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- Effects of exercise on cancer-related cognitive impairment in breast cancer survivors: a scoping review.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023Article
- Effect of music-based movement therapy on the freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease: A randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Charter to establish clinical exercise physiology as a recognised allied health profession in the UK: a call to action.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2021Article
- Review
- Evaluating Trastuzumab in the treatment of HER2 positive breast cancer.Histology and histopathology · 2020Review
- Strategies to prevent anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity in cancer survivors.Cardio-oncology (London, England) · 2019Review
- New Insights into the Role of Exercise in Inhibiting mTOR Signaling in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2018Review
- Effects of physical activity on depressive symptoms during breast cancer survivorship: a meta-analysis of randomised control trials.ESMO open · 2017Article
- The Lactate Minimum Test: Concept, Methodological Aspects and Insights for Future Investigations in Human and Animal Models.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Review
- Exercise Training in Cancer Survivors.Current oncology reports · 2016Review
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeCancer survivors are recommended to perform 150 min/week of moderate or 75 min/week of vigorous aerobic exercise, but it remains unclear how moderate and vigorous intensities can be prescribed. Therefore, it was investigated whether and how intensity prescriptions for healthy adults by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) need to be adapted for breast cancer survivors.
methodsFifty-two breast cancer survivors (stage 0-III, age 52 ± 9 years, BMI 25.4 ± 3.5 kg/m2) performed cardiopulmonary exercise tests at the end of primary therapy. Intensity classes defined as percentages of maximal heart rate (HRmax), heart rate reserve (HRR), and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) were compared to the ACSM's intensity classes using oxygen uptake reserve as reference.
resultsThe prescriptions for moderate and vigorous exercise intensities were significantly different between breast cancer survivors and healthy adults when using VO2max (moderate 50-66 vs. 46-63 and vigorous 67-91 vs. 64-90% VO2max) or HRR (moderate 26-50 vs. 40-59 and vigorous 51-88 vs. 60-89 % HRR), but not when using HRmax (moderate 65-76 vs. 64-76 and vigorous 77-94 vs. 77-95% HRmax).
conclusionsIn breast cancer survivors, intensity prescriptions for healthy adults result in considerably too intense training if HRR is used as guiding factor. Prescriptions using VO2max result in a slightly too low exercise intensity, whereas recommendations in percentages of HRmax appear valid. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: Cancer survivors should not uncritically adopt exercise intensity prescriptions for healthy adults. Specific prescriptions for the studied population are provided.
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