SynthesisJournal of cancer survivorship : research and practice2017
Toward the optimal strategy for sustained weight loss in overweight cancer survivors: a systematic review of the literature.
Synthesis in Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03908996 (Preliminary Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Profile by Sanford Weight Management Program in Endometrial Cancer Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Preliminary Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Profile by Sanford Weight Management Program in Endometrial Cancer Patients
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Behaviour change techniques used in lifestyle interventions that aim to reduce cancer-related fatigue in cancer survivors: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Pooled it
- Identifying the effective behaviour change techniques in nutrition and physical activity interventions for the treatment of overweight/obesity in post-treatment breast cancer survivors: a systematic review.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of the use of dietary self-monitoring in behavioural weight loss interventions: delivery, intensity and effectiveness.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of maintenance of physical activity behaviour change in cancer survivors.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Pooled it
- A comparison of two mail-based strategies to recruit older cancer survivors into a randomized controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2022Trial
- Sustainability capacity of a vegetable gardening intervention for cancer survivors.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Facilitators of behavior change and weight loss in an intervention for African American Breast Cancer Survivors.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2020Trial
- Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement Restructures Reward Processing and Promotes Interoceptive Awareness in Overweight Cancer Survivors: Mechanistic Results From a Stage 1 Randomized Controlled Trial.Integrative cancer therapiesTrial
- Symptom severity clusters in myeloproliferative neoplasms are unrelated to disease phenotype: results from a multicenter survey of the East German study group for hematology and oncology (OSHO #97).Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Determinants and timing of lifestyle changes in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors: A longitudinal qualitative study.PloS one · 2025Article
- From Surviving to Thriving: Key Considerations for Weight Control Across Diverse Cancer Survivorship Populations.Obesity science & practice · 2024Review
- Using the Behavior Change Wheel to Identify and Understand Key Facilitators and Barriers for Lifestyle Care for Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors: A Delphi-Study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Co-designed weight management intervention for women recovering from oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer.BMC cancer · 2022Article
- Cancer and Obesity: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2022.Obesity pillars · 2022Article
- Psychosocial Determinants of Lifestyle Change after a Cancer Diagnosis: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Cancers · 2022Review
- Psychological distress and lower health-related quality of life are associated with need for dietary support among colorectal cancer survivors with overweight or obesity.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of profile by Sanford behavioral weight loss program for weight loss following endometrial cancer treatment.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2021Article
- Staying 'Covid-safe': Proposals for embedding behaviours that protect against Covid-19 transmission in the UK.British journal of health psychology · 2021Review
- Evaluation of the Healthy Living after Cancer text message-delivered, extended contact intervention using the RE-AIM framework.BMC cancer · 2021Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeTo gain more insight into the optimal strategy to achieve weight loss and weight loss maintenance in overweight and obese cancer survivors after completion of initial treatment, this systematic review aimed to provide an overview of the literature on intervention effects on weight, to describe intervention components used in effective interventions, to identify and synthesize behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and to assess the frequency with which these BCTs were used in effective interventions.
methodsSix databases were searched for original research articles describing weight changes in adult overweight cancer survivors after participation in a lifestyle intervention initiated after completion of initial treatment. Two researchers independently screened the retrieved papers and extracted BCTs using the BCT Taxonomy version 1.
resultsThirty-two papers describing 27 interventions were included. Interventions that were evaluated with a robust study design (n = 8) generally showed <5% weight loss and did not evaluate effects at ≥12 months after intervention completion. Effective interventions promoted both diet and physical activity and used the BCTs 'goal setting (behaviour)', 'action planning', 'social support (unspecified)' and 'instruction on how to perform the behaviour'.
conclusionsThe results of this first review on intervention components of effective interventions could be used to inform intervention development and showed a need for future publications to report long-term effects, a detailed intervention description and an extensive process evaluation. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: This study contributed to increasing knowledge on the optimal strategy to achieve weight loss, which is recommended for overweight cancer survivors to improve health outcomes.
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